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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 08-28-2007
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How Many Computers Do You Have Root Access At Work?

Here we go again

At work, where ever that is, on how many computers/servers/workstations do you have root access?

Only count unix or linux boxes, thanks (no mainframes, windows or older macs, etc).
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Got over a hundred here - various Solaris versions (7, 8, 9, 10), Gentoo Linux, RHEL, VMware ESX, Mac OS X.

This will double over the next few weeks as we're implementing 12 T2000s each running around 10 zones.

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All of 'em! If I have access, I have root. Just "sudo bash" and onward and upward!
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This is at my new job. A huge mixed environment of Solaris 8 and 10 and RHEL and SLES 9. 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.
At my older job, I was in production support and had root access to over 200 Solaris 8, 9 and 10 servers.

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Interesting poll, I have never thought of that At the old company I had root access to more than 70 (production + dev + var ) servers - mostly FreeBSD, some linux and SunOS 5.8. Currently more than 20 - aix, solaris, linux.
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I have root access to a few hundred of each of Solaris, AIX, and Linux named hosts and something like 3-4 thousand linux blades.
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How are we counting VM's?
Without counting VM's or partitions about 160 RHEL, and 65 or so Solaris boxes of varying pedigrees.
Last position was about 45 RHEL and about 400 HPUX.
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VMs?

Up to you
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