Ah no.

Post #411,126 by boxley 6/15/16 10:09:13 PM 6/15/16 10:09:13 PM Reply	Ah no. With my access I could bring a very large company down in less than a minute. They did not have a choice on how to do it. always look out for number one and don't step in number two
Post #411,129 by pwhysall 6/16/16 1:36:09 AM 6/16/16 1:36:09 AM Reply	Yup It's harsh, but it's the only rational way to deal with people who got root.
Post #411,132 by Ashton 6/16/16 8:54:04 AM 6/16/16 8:54:04 AM Reply	So then.. In the case where someone knows where a back-door resides, say (maybe for having made it..) I suppose that the only Enterprise-friendly solution would be.. ..well, you know. with extreme prejudice. Hey you're all just-like-the-NRA: the only remedy for a bad-guy-with-a-code is, a Good-guy-with-a-code that erases the bad-guy's good code. Brain hurts. Want yellow/oily paper-tape with bootstrap loader. Digits were warmer, fuzzier then. Only Safe-mantra for an ITer: I. Know. Nothing. What is this place, how did I get here? Please show me where the sidewalk is. I want to go home. Y.P.B.-with-Feeling.
Post #411,139 by Another Scott 6/16/16 11:28:50 AM 6/16/16 11:28:50 AM Reply	My step-mom was an IT VP at a fairly big place... She rose up through the ranks after starting with computer stuff in the 1960s. Near the end of her career she told me that there was a serious school of thought that one should fire the irreplaceable people in IT because they were too dangerous to the company. Yet somehow those irreplaceable people were never IT managers. ;-) That tells me that the processes inside the company are broken, not the people, but there you are. Cheers, Scott.
Post #411,142 by boxley 6/16/16 12:14:25 PM 6/16/16 12:14:25 PM Reply	Mr Tilly used to say the same thing always look out for number one and don't step in number two
Post #411,144 by drook 6/16/16 12:21:07 PM 6/16/16 12:21:07 PM Reply	Till-ayyyyyy!!!!!! -- Drew
Post #411,186 by crazy 6/17/16 4:49:05 PM 6/17/16 4:49:05 PM Reply	Yeah, we tag teamed that meme But it is a bit more complex. A manager should never let an employee hold the company hostage. So if that happens, it is management's fault for not providing a backup person to share those critical responsibilities. On the other hand, if a person creates a project only they can maintain, and embeds themselves and refuse to knowledge transfer ,then they can't be trusted and need to be fired.
Post #411,146 by malraux 6/16/16 12:36:09 PM 6/16/16 12:36:09 PM Reply	People can be single points of failure too Don't fire them. Just move them out of their current positions and into something else to force the knowledge transfer. Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.

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