Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!utcs.toronto.edu!cks Newsgroups: alt.sources.d From: cks@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu (Chris Siebenmann) Subject: Re: another 'su encancer' Message-ID: <1991May6.221705.22166@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Organization: Ziebmef home away from home References: <1991Apr26.142736.21272@convex.com> <1991May4.165508.10057@odin.diku.dk> Date: 7 May 91 02:17:05 GMT Lines: 16 kimcm@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@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu ...!{utgpu,utzoo,watmath}!utgpu!cks