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You should have seen how much harder life got at our company when we discontinued a common root password across the back office. Things that used to take 5 minu
by foobarian 8y ago
You should have seen how much harder life got at our company when we discontinued a common root password across the back office. Things that used to take 5 minutes to fix by self-service now take a ticket to the owner of a system, which can take days.
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- jessaustin 8y agoIf one bought into "the security story", one would expect your company after this policy change to have seen fewer random regressions due to random people rooting around in systems for which they were not responsible. Did you find that to be the case?
- rorykoehler 8y agoIt's about reducing exposure to risk more than actual occurrences. You only need to regress once for it to permanently damage your business. Just because it never happened until now doesn't mean that it won't in the future.
- jessaustin 8y agoISTM typically there would have to be more going wrong for "permanent damage"? Not that it would be surprising for a shared-root organization e.g. to have poor backup skills...
- rorykoehler 8y agoCommercial damage is often worse than technical
- Pyxl101 8y agoEven if you don't have a common root password, you can still have groups of people who are sudoers for different systems.
- rachelbythebay 8y agoShhh...