[NCLUG] Re: Who uses SUDO on production machines?

[Evelyn Mitchell]

* On 2007-03-19 10:38 Bob Proulx <bob at proulx.com> wrote:
> One of the guys I used to work with was a hacker sort and would poke
> at the security of my machines in a friendly sort of way.  I want to
> stress that it was friendly and I know that he would never have caused
> me more than practical joke trouble.  When we started working together
> I immediately gave him root access.  He said, "Darn!  That takes all
> of the fun out it." and he never abused the privilege.  I worked with
> him and trusted him not to screw me or anyone else over and in return
> he was one of the people I could count on to do a good job.  It was
> then his system as much as it was mine and he became motivated to
> become a protector of it.

Nice bit of reverse psychology, Bob!

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