According to Max Bell:
>
>.  An example would be adding
>a printcap entry for a "seldom used" remote printer, correcting errors in
>the termcap database, or installing new software.  Having super-user
>ability on a system means one has a duty to serve the needs of the users
>no matter how "uninteresting", but some do not live up to that responsibility.

Yep, that is the downside to all that heady power ;-)

The downside of having super-user freely available are such things as
serial card drivers uninstalled (someone did this to me), removal of
the /dev directory "because we needed more space", other disappearing
system directories and the like.  All these things are done either
unknowingly (scary) or with honest intentions but that does not stop
the other users screaming AT YOU because YOU are the one that is
supposed to keep the system running :-(

If people need root to do very specific things then use sudo to give
them the required access.  If you cannot do that then you have to make
a judgement call and/or terrorise them enough to _think_ about what
they are doing ;-)



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Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, AWA Defence Industries
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