>>>until someone broke So there are unix guys who are better than Unix admins in your shop ? or was it programmer ? You can easily trace that out -who logged in by IP -DHCP etc.. we do it all the time .. If someone here even logs into co-workers machine without his permission that's against company policy - HR disciplinary action - gets fired. -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bill Tangren Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 5:27 PM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: Permit root login for telnet.. Shekhar Dhotre wrote: > OK , no one has access to network room here than Coms guys . Even I > cannot go in as I am in Unix/Storages group. Our comm. guys are not > interested in checking our passwords. > > Also they have access to most of the prod switches, so they are trusted > by the business. Again not a risk . > > That's what some of us here thought too... until someone broke in to one of our computers, put the network card in promiscuous mode, started a password sniffer, and then got the root passwords for dozens of boxes. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list