Re: PowerBroker

From: Michael Fischbein (msf@shell.inch.com)
Date: 04/06/03 

From: Michael Fischbein <msf@shell.inch.com>
Date: 5 Apr 2003 22:59:47 -0500

In comp.security.unix Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> wrote:

> What if a systems network connection breaks and you need to work from
> terminal server, but arghh this shitty "Powerbroker Server" isn't
> reachable and you can't login as root because you don't have the root
> password.

> Sorry, but this sounds very suspicious and I can't imagine how this should
> work out in a 24/7 environment (without shift work). If some company
> doesn't trust there own admins, well then they made a big mistake in
> the first place, while recruiting.

Most of the places I've seen Powerbroker used it was to
allow root access for non-system-admins who needed it only
occasionally. For email or webserver configurations, for example.

        mike 

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