>On Fri, 8 Jan 1999, Rick Chandler wrote:
>> >Michael
>> Your making more of this than it really is.
>
>Maybe. I think the point is there are lots of newbies and some of them
>lurk. Given if one guy does it then there are probably others that do
as
>well. It needed to be said--regardless of what you say--that that is a
bad
>idea and irresponsible. Period. Even if you don't think you'll be
>compromised, if you were, then someone could use that as a gate to
>compromise others. Period. It's not just a problem of the guy with the
>box. And as far as being a sysadmin goes, I know some sysadmins who are
>very good, and I also know some personally that couldn't grep their way
>out of a wet paper bag, so that in itself, doesn't prove competency of
the
>sys admin in question, as much as the person who hired them. This is
not
>to say you aren't good at what you do. It is just to say I've seen too
>many 'experts' with licenses, break boxes and do a bad job (with
hardware
>or adminstration ) , as well as the contrary to just assume that just
>cause you are a sysadm you know what you are doing. Don't take my
>statements personally, I wasn't criticizing you, I was just questioning
a
>mentality.
Makes sense to me. I do have a hard time with the difference between my
home systems and my work systems when it comes to giving someone advice.
They are completely different systems and are setup that way also. My
work systems are secure/home is not(well, more now anyways) my work
systems do not see untested or uncommercial software, my home system
sees all. My work system never sees the root account, my home system
always does. With the spectrum being so different, it is hard for me to
give someone advice on what they should do. I guess being safe is
better than being sorry. I'll look at this list(and Linux) as more of a
sysadm than a lamer. :-)
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