I used to work as a sysadmin at a small development shop that had 6 programmers. Those guys didn't have root access either, but it's not because they weren't c

I used to work as a sysadmin at a small development shop that had 6 programmers. Those guys didn't have root access either, but it's not because they weren't competent; it was the only way we could keep the machines consistent. Otherwise, people were installing things all over the place and, in a lot of cases, the same program would be installed differently on each machine.