In message <078a01c3afe0$5e2f5040$b9844051_at_insultant.net>, "boyd, rounin" write s: > From: "Bruce M Simpson" <bms_at_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_at_komquats.com> http://www.komquats.com/ BC Government . FreeBSD UNIX Cy.Schubert_at_osg.gov.bc.ca . cy_at_FreeBSD.org http://www.gov.bc.ca/ . http://www.FreeBSD.org/Received on Thu Nov 20 2003 - 20:05:08 UTC
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