I am the Team Manager of Systems Management at the company I work for and I do NOT know the administrator password.
Why? Well if you've been reading the story and the comments it's because I don't have to know the administrator password. I have x<10 people in our whole company's IT departments world-wide that need to know that password and they are all people that know what they have to do.
You may be thinking: oh look , just another manager that isn't capable of pulling his load. Wrong: I once did know the password and we got hacked. Now try tracing problems if 25+ people know the admins password.
Ahhh. Yess, that's the answer. I do have Admin privilege but only on a second account (not my primary user account). With that account I pull my weight and I am trackable as are the other x<10 gurus.
As for the guy in SF. Kudos go to him. I would deffinitely not let my boss or his boss (CIO) know the Admin password.
As for the DA. How to prosecute somebody who "hijacked" a network but didn't? Who wanted to crash the network, but was in fact asking "are the core network components affected?"-"No!"?
As for all you guys chipping in to help the "in-your-terms" incapable leftover SysAdmins. Why do it? Let them solve their problems themselves. They will realize that learning by doing is the best way to learn and it might teach them that there are people who you just have to rely on. I lost one SA recently to cancer. He took a lot of knowledge with him when he left. He isn't unreplacable, but it will take a hell of a lot of time.
As for the SF IT dept. Why?.................
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I am the Team Manager of Systems Management at the company I work for and I do NOT know the administrator password.
Why? Well if you've been reading the story and the comments it's because I don't have to know the administrator password. I have x<10 people in our whole company's IT departments world-wide that need to know that password and they are all people that know what they have to do.
You may be thinking: oh look , just another manager that isn't capable of pulling his load.
Wrong: I once did know the password and we got hacked. Now try tracing problems if 25+ people know the admins password.
Ahhh. Yess, that's the answer. I do have Admin privilege but only on a second account (not my primary user account). With that account I pull my weight and I am trackable as are the other x<10 gurus.
As for the guy in SF. Kudos go to him. I would deffinitely not let my boss or his boss (CIO) know the Admin password.
As for the DA. How to prosecute somebody who "hijacked" a network but didn't? Who wanted to crash the network, but was in fact asking "are the core network components affected?"-"No!"?
As for all you guys chipping in to help the "in-your-terms" incapable leftover SysAdmins. Why do it? Let them solve their problems themselves. They will realize that learning by doing is the best way to learn and it might teach them that there are people who you just have to rely on. I lost one SA recently to cancer. He took a lot of knowledge with him when he left. He isn't unreplacable, but it will take a hell of a lot of time.
As for the SF IT dept. Why?.................
-hot2use
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Searching a knowledge base is like picking your nose. You never know what you will find.