On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 23:00:53 -0500 "David Phillips" <david at acz.org> wrote: > Shawn writes: > > More like application development reasons. They (developers) need > > sudo permissions to modify files owned by root. These are non > > system files, only ones used by the applications. As to how many, > > I'm not sure of the exact count, I'd say literally could be up to or > > over 1000 per system and over 100 servers. > > Why is it an issue if developers have root access on development > boxes? > They don't have root per se. I've modified the sudoers file to prevent them from shelling out, as well as a number of other things administratively. Yes, there are flaws to sudo and ways around it I know. However, they do not have access to root directly. In a perfect world, development would be without need for sudo, and I could get rid of it altogether. However, it's not going to happen. -- Shawn The difficult we do today; the impossible take a little longer. _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list