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Originally Posted by
kermit
Steve, there are various reasons why the sysadmin would remove a compiler binary, not least of which is for security purposes. Not all systems need a compiler installed, and if not then there is no reason to leave one on in order to give tools to miscreants who want to build their own versions of system utilities etc. If you want a compiler on your system, you are going to have to talk to your sysadmin.
Hah! I hope all the security "experts" out there are also completely removing all forms of
Perl from their machines.
And that's just one way to get around someone who thinks "I can make a system more secure by deleting compilers".
No you can't. Because you're not really changing what any user can actually DO.