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Top Forums Programming Open Source Vendor root access Post 302975273 by Don Cragun on Friday 10th of June 2016 01:55:32 AM
Old 06-10-2016
If you as a system administrator grant anyone root access to your network (remotely or on-site) and they screw up, you are betting your future and the financial security (including all private data and IP on every system accessible on your network) and the reputation of the company you work for on the trustworthiness of that person.

Can you isolate the systems this person will be accessing AND verify 100% that they have a not installed any back doors or data leaks on the systems they have touched before you reconnect those systems to the rest of your network?

How much do you trust this vendor and all of that vendor's employees and contractors?
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vb(7)							 Miscellaneous Information Manual						     vb(7)

NAME

       vb, sys_attrs_vme_vba - VMEbus backplane Ethernet interface

SYNOPSIS

       controller vb0 at vba0

DESCRIPTION

       The  VMEbus  backplane (vb) interface provides access to an Ethernet network through the VMEbus backplane driver, which acts as an Ethernet
       Datalink Layer driver.  This interface allows VMEbus-based systems to communicate directly over the VMEbus to other VMEbus-based systems on
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       The VMEbus backplane interface requires you to modify the /etc/sysconfigtab file on your AXPvme or Alpha VME system in order  to  configure
       the  vb driver and to map VMEbus windows for the system.  Mapping the VMEbus windows on one node requires knowledge about every node in the
       vb network.

									  Note

       Do not modify any vme_vba kernel subsystem attributes.  To configure a vb network node, you modify attributes of the vb	driver	(vb:)  and
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       See System Configuration Supplement: OEM Platforms for detailed information about the use of the vb interface on Alpha VME systems, includ-
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