On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 05:00:31PM -0400, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
Sorry I forgot to include the subject line?
On 06/21/2012 04:57 PM, Robert Middleswarth wrote:
A few months ago It was asked on infra@ about how the group should go about building up trust so you all would feel comfortable handing out e.g. ssh and sudo access to servers. Since there is someone activity (me) asking seeking to help and would need that access I guess this is a good time to bring up the question again.
I am not aware of any other trick beyond building up reputation. Your personal involvement in the project goes a long way to prove that you indeed care for it. However, I do not know to quantify how much reputation would one need to get a root access, a permission that is very easy to abuse and very hard to take away. Another important issue beyond trust is NEED. Do you really need full su access? I personally do not have such an access, and have to ask for every little host tweak specifically. Dan.