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View Poll Results: At Work, How Many Computers Do You Have Root Access?
1 8 9.20%
2 10 11.49%
3 to 5 3 3.45%
6 to 10 8 9.20%
11 to 20 8 9.20%
20 to 30 6 6.90%
29 to 50 2 2.30%
50 to 100 8 9.20%
More than 100 34 39.08%
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Old 05-22-2008
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Eronysis -

OK. 350 servers, 6 people.

I assume you have root access to all 350. Have to so you can cover for anyone in the event of illness, vacation, etc.

But for the survey, would you respond 350? Or the 60 or so that you are personally handling?

I.E. Did you respond 50-100 or over 100?
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I'd go for "over 100". If you see my first post in this thread, I said:
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I am in the build team though and am not supposed to access production servers. This does not mean that I cannot and as a result, have access to over 5000 servers globally.
I have free rein only on the servers that I am building at any give moment. If I need to verify something on an existing production server (if, for example, I am building a server that needs to be cloned from an existing server), I login, take root - only if I must, check what I want to and logout. All of it in a matter of minutes.
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Blowtorch -

I follow your logic.

But if you follow mine, then your answer would be just the servers you are currently building, plus the one more you access to check stuff.

I mean, sure, you technically have root access to all of them. But how often do you access any of them other than what you're building, plus that one extra server?

And I'd be willing to bet that the extra server is probably somewhere in the building where you are working.

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Eronysis -

OK. 350 servers, 6 people.

I assume you have root access to all 350. Have to so you can cover for anyone in the event of illness, vacation, etc.

But for the survey, would you respond 350? Or the 60 or so that you are personally handling?

I.E. Did you respond 50-100 or over 100?
Dave,

Very good point, I responded over 100. Albeit other than scripts running checking up on things via stored keys, I bet I only manually login to 40-50 per month. I see where you were getting the incredulity reaction from now.

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