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Re: How to keep "root" out?

From: Tanel Poder <tanel.poder.003_at_mail.ee>
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 11:09:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005CE8B7.20030902110926@fatcity.com>


> Instead of trying to do things in software, which was designed not to
resist
> the "root" user,
> why don't we concentrate on specialized hardware and procedures which
exist
> for that purpose?
> Guns, threats of violence and blackmail are excellent means of keeping the
> system administrator
> out of the database. After all they're only human and chances are that a

One more solution would be to migrate to Windows. Then you won't have any root user.

Tanel.

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