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Why include the shell then? Just curious.
by hnthrowaway0315 5y ago
Why include the shell then? Just curious.
- dmd 5y agoIt's really for Oracle techs to use, I guess? Dell Compellent has a similar thing. Theirs is hidden behind the super seekrit password "SuPpOrt"...
- hnthrowaway0315 5y agoThat's a very...secure password!
- colechristensen 5y agoIt really should be applauded, you own this thing and can fully control it, but that means you can do things with it we can’t save you from and will refuse to even try. No need for a “security” team to lock away access from you, a very stern warning will do.
- hnthrowaway0315 5y agoGot it, thanks!
- duxup 5y agoDebugging maybe? When I worked support for networking equipment every device had potentially multiple shells or APIs hidden that allowed you to do stuff that really only the engineers who made the thing should do / direct someone to do it. I often walked trustworthy customers through using them as they knew if they did it then it was on them.
- hnthrowaway0315 5y agoReasonable, someone gets to use it.
- cryptonector 5y agoFor Sun (later, Oracle) support staff to access remotely (with the customer's approval).
- tgsovlerkhgsel 5y agoMost likely for support engineers working on "something went really wrong" cases to be able to provide you with debug commands that you should run, or for support engineers to be able to run such commands.
- IncRnd 5y agoApparently, you didn't read the message.
- hnthrowaway0315 5y agoNo I did, just not sophiscated to understand all of that. My basic understanding is that they put something in the piece of software that users should absolutely not touch, that's why I asked why it absolutely has be there. That is, is there any chance that they can remove it from the hand of users without damaging the usability of that piece of software. The other commenters mentioned that support engineers may use it, so that answered my question.