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I work in the FDA, and it almost takes an act of congress to get root on developer workstations. Also we can't install software unless it's on the the MAT (mas
by sixbrx 14y ago
I work in the FDA, and it almost takes an act of congress to get root on developer workstations. Also we can't install software unless it's on the the MAT (master approved technologies) list. Which is pretty ironic, because we create software ourselves, which is of course not on that centrally maintained, slow to change list. So we're not sure if we're actually allowed to ever run the results of our compiles. Nobody wants to ask because we might not like the answer...
- keithpeter 14y agoSounds like a David Foster Wallace short story there... go on ASK
- jrockway 14y agoBank of America was like that. One former colleague wanted shell logins on a windows box, but was denied permission to install cygwin sshd. So he wrote his own version that listened to a port and executed the unauthenticated command sent to that port. And that was 100% within policy.