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- From: chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
- Subject: Re: Favourite DOMAIN/OS features (or mis-features)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.010140.12021@edsi.plexus.COM>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 01:01:40 GMT
- References: <1992Jul19.232614.10280@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Jul20.142205.27209@edsi.plexus.COM> <BCR.92Jul21123903@hpl3sn02.cern.ch>
- Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
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- bcr@cernapo (Bill Riemers) writes:
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- :)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.
-
- Point taken. Isn't that where group "wheel" comes into play? Group
- permissions are a great way of giving "some" priviledges without buying
- the farm.
-
- Then again I'm only taking care of 37 nodes, have relatively intelligent
- engineers for users, and let five or six trusted people have root
- access. I'm naive, but don't have to chase down every little "hey I did
- 'chown' instead of 'chmod'..."
- --
- Chuck Tomasi | "Mom, it's Data. I heard you know
- chuck@edsi.plexus.COM | how to turn him on."
- spool!cserver!edsi!chuck | -Wesley "Datalore"
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