{"id":11726,"date":"2018-03-13T15:48:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/13\/news-5496\/"},"modified":"2018-03-13T15:48:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T23:48:43","slug":"news-5496","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2018\/03\/13\/news-5496\/","title":{"rendered":"Just one, um, great idea after another"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sysadmin pilot fish is approached by the IT director, who tells fish to create an account for the director that has the same capabilities as the lead programmer’s account.<\/p>\n

“Seems he had some kind of beef with the lead programmer,” sighs fish. “But I created the account, set the privileges and gave him the user name and password.<\/p>\n

“Three months later, he came into my office accusing me of not complying with his directive.<\/p>\n

“I told him that I had indeed complied with his instructions, including showing him that the login capability worked as advertised.<\/p>\n

“He told me he couldn’t perform a certain operation when he logged in. I explained that neither could the lead programmer. Only system administrators could.<\/p>\n

“He demanded that he be given system administrator privileges.<\/p>\n

“I wrote a white paper that I gave to his boss, the VP of Finance, explaining what the IT director was requesting and pointing out that, since he had zero experience in system administration on these systems, I was reluctant to provide him with those privileges.<\/p>\n

“Needless to say, the VP told me to comply.<\/p>\n

“I left the company shortly thereafter.”<\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 03:00:00 -0700<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sysadmin pilot fish is approached by the IT director, who tells fish to create an account for the director that has the same capabilities as the lead programmer’s account.<\/p>\n

“Seems he had some kind of beef with the lead programmer,” sighs fish. “But I created the account, set the privileges and gave him the user name and password.<\/p>\n

“Three months later, he came into my office accusing me of not complying with his directive.<\/p>\n

“I told him that I had indeed complied with his instructions, including showing him that the login capability worked as advertised.<\/p>\n

“He told me he couldn’t perform a certain operation when he logged in. I explained that neither could the lead programmer. Only system administrators could.<\/p>\n

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