[ale] veteran unix admin

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Tue, 2011-02-15 at 11:34 -0500, Jerald Sheets wrote: 
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> On Feb 15, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
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> > Um. yeah. Like the poster "Peters Laws of the Sociopathic
> > Obsessive-Compulsive" I'm afraid to ever let a shrink see this list as
> > well.
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> I saw that article, Jim. The guy lost all credibility on point #1
> alone. In a corporate, audited, governing-body certified environment,
> you should NEVER not use sudo. (with full logging). 
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Huh?  You mean never use "su" don't you?

I agree.  That first point was totally bogus.

> I have been in environments where we had to go look up the root pw
> when a vendor product refused to honor sudo, but aside from that, 97+
> % of what you do can (and should) be managed via sudo. Anything else
> is pure laziness.

> If you don't impose those guidelines on yourself, SAS70, ITIL, ISO, or
> some other body will.

> #!/jerald
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Regards,
Mike
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