[rescue] list dictatorship (topic change)

[Brian Hechinger]

On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:27:22PM -0700, Gary Nichols wrote:
> I sense that you're holding something back Brian.  How do you REALLY 
> feel about this?  :-)

well, just so you know, i've expressing these exact same feelings on our
group's mail list at work, so it's being shoved in their faces at the very
least. ;)

> What you need to solve your pains is a good ol' fashioned SAS/70 
> audit.  Those auditors will have you slam the door on your developers 
> access to production faster than a bad burrito going through an 
> intestinal track.  
> 
> SOMEtimes getting audited is a good thing(tm).

give us another month first though.  there are far too many things that need
to be done before an audit.  mostly since we don't have a lot of things in place
and so to tighten certain holes down would make the administration of the
systems a little painful.

although they FINALLY closed down free ssh access from anywhere and now limit
it to the static IP addresses of the admins' home networks. :)

-brian

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