Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 21:05:02 -0800 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> To: "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net> Cc: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman@mindspring.com> Subject: Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything Message-ID: <200311210505.hAL552Fk081879@cwsys.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: Message from "boyd, rounin" <boyd@insultant.net> <078a01c3afe0$5e2f5040$b9844051@insultant.net>
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In message <078a01c3afe0$5e2f5040$b9844051@insultant.net>, "boyd, rounin" write s: > From: "Bruce M Simpson" <bms@spc.org> > > During my time in an investment bank, installations were usually hosed > > in this way by human error (systems administrators removing a file by > > accident, etc) ... > > yup, it's rare i've seen flakey h/w. but i do remember one sysadmin > (when i was a contract sysadmin) who on day 2 chown'd the whole > source tree to himself on a development m/c. ugly. there were > backups but 'that would be too costly [in time]' to do a clean restore. I've seen that too. An end user got permission from management to the root account, e.g. management ordered us to give her the root pw on a Tru64 box. She chowned every file on the system to herself. Very ugly indeed. Cheers, -- Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@komquats.com> http://www.komquats.com/ BC Government . FreeBSD UNIX Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca . cy@FreeBSD.org http://www.gov.bc.ca/ . http://www.FreeBSD.org/
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