[ Thanks to Noel
for this link. ]
“A System Administrator has a strange relationship with the
equipment they manage, with the people using their system and with
the world outside their systems. They have to walk a fine line
between making their systems unusable and leaving them unsecured or
unreliable. To make things even more complicated the line is
different for each and every situation. In this article I will
overview some of the choices and decisions that a System
Administrator must understand and make when building or maintaining
their systems.”
“I will look at each general area from the point of view of who
or what the System Administrator is trusting and some of the
factors involved. I have chosen as examples to discuss trusting the
OS, hardware, backups, users, physical site, other machines,
network and the world.”