local access rights to *nix boxes

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I did a contract for Raytheon a few years ago. In Bedford, I had root access 
to my workstation as well as a few of the systems in the lab. I was sent up 
to Sudbury to write a fibre channel device driver. The first issue was that 
I was not permitted (by the Sudbury IT group) to have root access to the 
workstation that also belonged to HP and was in the lab for the purpose of 
writing the device driver. In HP-UX, because of the way some of the header 
files were set up, I could not even compile without root access. We fought 
for 6 weeks on this. My department then gave up and we sent everything down 
to Bedford where I could start the work. I then got a call that the IT 
people had relented, but the security people ruled that I needed a Raytheon 
employee to watch every keystroke while I had root access. 
By that time, my contract was nearly over and I elected to go elsewhere 
rather than renew. 


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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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