Nice approach. Someone gets pissed off, sniffs out the passwords, logs into random boxes, erases critical data, drops a couple of databases. Then (if caught) they get fired. Your IT guys spend weeks restoring date from backups, wondering what else might have been damaged. Thousands of dollars in wages spent on rolling things back. Because your "company policy" does not adhere to basic, --BASIC-- security practices that are FAR from novel, and are implemented in the smallest shops. G On 8/30/06, Shekhar Dhotre <sdhotre@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>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
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