[52472] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Security Practices question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Baker)
Wed Oct 2 21:42:45 2002
From: "Joel Baker" <lucifer@lightbearer.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 19:42:13 -0600
To: just me <matt@snark.net>
Cc: Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net>,
"Greg A. Woods" <woods@weird.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33L0.0210021745300.23094-100000@pants.snark.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:48:16PM -0700, just me wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Scott Francis wrote:
>
> Can you back up that statement in /any/ way? What exactly are your reasons
> why sudo is a worse solution (or even a bad idea)?
>
> In an environment where every sysadmin is interchangable, and any one
> of them can be woken up at 3am to fix the random problem of the day,
> you tell me how to manage 'sudoers' on 4000 machines.
rdist comes to mind...
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