>>> On 11/3/2009 at 11:33 AM, Jack Woehr <j...@well.com> wrote: -snip- > I'm more disturbed that this kind of snipe hunt, the deleting of > well-known no-login system accounts > that date back in Unix history to the 1980's, is viewed by the Linux 390 > community as a useful or > rational activity that can be mandated by management without your > laughing in their faces.
No one has said it's rational or useful (at least I haven't), but it is necessary, for the numerous reasons everyone has been relating. Technicians don't get to ignore executive management mandates. They can, and do, criticize them and complain about them, but for something like this that is pretty small potatoes in the grand scheme of things, they do their job as directed. There have been issues in the past where I would have refused to do as directed, but not for something this petty. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
