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  15     <B>Andrew Church</B>
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  19     <I>Mon Feb  5 07:48:54 PST 2001</I>
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  34 <PRE>&gt;<i>You mean there isn't a safeguard on the root nick pw? Shows how much I pay
  35 </I>&gt;<i>attention. Looks like I'll be rotating my password more often till there is.
  36 </I>
  37      One thing you need to do less of is listen to rumors and RTFM more.
  38 &gt;<i>From the README:
  39 </I>
  40 &gt;<i>    In an effort to prevent highly privileged accounts being compromised
  41 </I>&gt;<i>by the use of commands available to other highly privileged accounts,
  42 </I>&gt;<i>Services limits the use of certain commands reserved for Services admins.
  43 </I>&gt;<i>Services admins can not use the commands GETPASS, SET PASSWORD, FORBID or
  44 </I>&gt;<i>DROP on another Services admin. Only the Services root has these
  45 </I>&gt;<i>abilities.
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  47 Of course, if they SU (which means they know the password, which means YOU
  48 gave it to them) then they can get passwords.  Which brings me to my other
  49 point:
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  51      For God's sake, people, TAKE SOME RESPONSIBILITY ALREADY!  Or don't
  52 be an administrator, if you can't handle giving out privileges
  53 responsibly.  YES, if you allow other people root privileges they can
  54 wreak havoc with Services.  That's the WAY THINGS ARE.  If you don't like
  55 that then don't set a password for crying out loud.
  56
  57 &gt;<i>Will there be a way to disable the SU command?
  58 </I>
  59      RTFM and/or see above; there already is.  I don't even know why I'm
  60 replying to this.
  61
  62   --Andrew Church
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