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Do Your Developers Have Local Admin Rights?
plover writes "I work as a developer for a Very Large American Corporation. We are not an IT company, but have a large IT organization that does a lot of internal development. In my area, we do Windows development, which includes writing and maintaining code for various services and executables. A few years ago the Info Security group removed local administrator rights from most accounts and machines, but our area was granted exceptions for developers. My question is: do other developers in other large companies have local admin rights to their development environment? If not, how do you handle tasks like debugging, testing installations, or installing updated development tools that aren't a part of the standard corporate workstation?"
HELL no.
One of my first gigs, the Rock Star Developers had admin rights. They'd pretty much do whatever they friggin wanted. And guess who got to blame when they screwed up? Yup, the sysadmin. Namely, me.
They'd go in and reboot servers - servers with 100 people logged in and working on stuff - because they thought their database was out of memory. Not tell anyone, nothing. One time they enabled an rsync script that pretty much overwrote a week's worth of work. And who got blamed? The sysadmin, for not making it impossible for that script to work anymore. Or something. It was crazy.
So basically, yes, it's an accountability thing. If I'm responsible for these machines, then I'm in charge. Period.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
Me I just overwrote the Windows disk with a fresh Linux install of my choosing. I got to pick the root password.
plus the fact that developers are going to cause less harm than average users
As a developer and former sysadmin. I think are wrong there, I know that if I have a bad day at work and don't think one extra time before pressing enter och commiting I could wreck a much bigger havoc compared to a normal user that uses some gui that ask "are you sure" and they would not even think of doing some of the things I may do because they do not have the same know how. I think as a developer and sysadmin that developers are the most dangerous people to have running around with more privileges than needed. A developer that whips together a bash script for fast fix ending up in "rm -rf /"
preview button, my computer does't have any preview button
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So yeah, where can I get a full retail of Uliti
I void warranties.
Hah! I guess the moron must have mod points!!!
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