VMWare again

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:57:26 -0400
"Boland, John" <jboland-kYvJ4k0XgburIcfx335RAVaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> but, a corporate security policy is a corporate security policy.
> i've decided i don't want to be king canute and command the tide to
> stop.

I can understand corporate security.
While working for HP at Raytheon, I was at Raytheon, Bedford where I
had root access to the workstations in the HP group and a couple of
servers in the lab. I was sent to Sudbury to write a driver. Generally
even employees were not given root access to their workstations. The
specific workstation I would be using actually belonged to HP, not
Raytheon. However, the IT people refused to give me root access, even
through the request was bumped up. After several weeks of this, we
decided to move the workstation and the fibrechannel board down to
Bedford where I did have root access. Shortly after they sent the stuff
down to Bedford, the IT people decided I could have root access, but
since I was a contractor, they would have to go to security. Security
told them that root access was ok as long as a Raytheon employee sat
next to me and watched my keystrokes.

BTW: The IT people were knowledgeable about Unix, and were well aware
one can't write a device driver without having root access. (Almost
true, you can edit the code, but you can't compile it since the code
had to reside in a specific directory tree.=20

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Jerry Feldman <gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org>
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