[mdlug] What are the best practices for Linux partitioning & Mount points for Production systems

[Jonathan Billings]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 12:11:02AM -0500, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> Devs are not admins.
> Devs should not be given root or sudo access. When all your devs have
> root access, each one reconfigures the system to what he or she believes
> will optimize his or her part of the project, and screw up all the
> other devs.
> 
> The only people with root or sudo access should be admins.
> 
> 
> The devs will bitch and moan, but tough toogies for them.
> If he had his mind on being and admin, he wouldn't have deleted /usr.

I sincerely believe the whole 'DevOps' movement was started by
developers who were tired of Operations people refusing to give them
root access, so they invented a whole buzzword-compliant operations
philosophy that let them have root.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>