another 'su encancer'
Chris Siebenmann
cks at hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu
Tue May 7 12:17:05 AEST 1991
kimcm at diku.dk (Kim Christian Madsen) writes:
| [...] In such places the installation of a password-free su replacement
| is often a lesser evil, than having lazy sysadm's run to much in
| root-mode.
Perhaps a better solution is to stop having lazy sysadms? Personally, I
am quite aware of how much damage I can do as root by accident, and try
to spend as little time as root as I can; I think scared and cautious
sysadms are highly worth cultivating.
--
"This is what separates us system programmers from the
application programmers: we can ruin an entire machine and
then recover it, they can only ruin their own files and then
get someone else to restore them" - Geoff Collyer
cks at hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu ...!{utgpu,utzoo,watmath}!utgpu!cks
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