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How Many Computers Do You Have Root Access At Work?

View Poll Results: At Work, How Many Computers Do You Have Root Access?
More than 100 41 39.42%
11 to 20 11 10.58%
2 10 9.62%
6 to 10 10 9.62%
1 8 7.69%
20 to 30 8 7.69%
50 to 100 8 7.69%
3 to 5 5 4.81%
29 to 50 3 2.88%
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# 1  
Old 08-28-2007
How Many Computers Do You Have Root Access At Work?
Here we go again Smilie

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).
# 2  
Old 08-28-2007
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.

Cheers,
ZB
# 3  
Old 08-28-2007
All of 'em! If I have access, I have root. Just "sudo bash" and onward and upward!
-Edit
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. Smilie
At my older job, I was in production support and had root access to over 200 Solaris 8, 9 and 10 servers.
Last edited by blowtorch; 08-28-2007 at 11:05 PM..
# 4  
Old 08-29-2007
Interesting poll, I have never thought of that Smilie 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.
# 5  
Old 08-29-2007
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.
# 6  
Old 08-29-2007
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.
# 7  
Old 08-29-2007
VMs?

Up to you Smilie
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