Re: [SLUG] running xrpm as root

From: Andrew Wyatt (awyatt@intergate.cx)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 17:03:16 EDT


I've gotten into arguements with folks from various "enterprise management
providers" because I refuse to allow rlogin, rsh period, and especially not
as root! LOL

On Tuesday 18 September 2001 03:17 pm, you wrote:
> I've gotten in arguements with certified Solaris admins that insisted
> they had to be root all the time to do their work. I have 3 or 4
> boxes now that I don't even know the root passwrd for. Just use
> sudo judiciously.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jim Wildman jim@rossberry.com
>
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, herrold wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Sep 2001, Andrew Wyatt wrote:
> > > >The LESS time you spend as root, as a relatively new sysadmin, the
> > >
> > > sed s/relatively new//i
> >
> > concur
> >
> > > I know several admins that won't log in any other way :-(!!
> >
> > purported admins ...



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