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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. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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