In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "boyd, rounin" write s: > From: "Bruce M Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.komquats.com/ BC Government . FreeBSD UNIX [EMAIL PROTECTED] . [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gov.bc.ca/ . http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
