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- From: bcr@cernapo (Bill Riemers)
- Subject: Re: Favourite DOMAIN/OS features (or mis-features)
- In-Reply-To: chuck@edsi.plexus.COM's message of 20 Jul 92 14:22:05 GMT
- Message-ID: <BCR.92Jul21123903@hpl3sn02.cern.ch>
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- Organization: CERN, European Research Center for High Energy Physics
- References: <1992Jul19.232614.10280@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- <1992Jul20.142205.27209@edsi.plexus.COM>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 11:39:03 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Jul20.142205.27209@edsi.plexus.COM> chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi) writes:
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- In comp.sys.apollo you write:
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- - The fact that root is root is root! I log in to an HP-UX system and
- can't modify files across a system without punching a security hole in
- the kernel. With the Apollo file system I've got the whole network (//)
- at my disposal. When you're looking to do something simple like touch
- /sys/node_data/etc/daemons/tcpd for all nodes, that comes in handy.
-
- Ah, but this is also one of its bigest problems. If you have two or three
- hundred private nodes linked together you have a problem. You can't possably
- have enough hired system managers take care of them all. On the other hand,
- you don't dare allow 200+ people with root privledge either. What I wouldn't
- give to be able to have someone from my university to have root access to our
- nodes... Instead, I have to wait weeks for a system manager to get time to
- make relatively minor changes.
-
- Bill
-