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Re:The Lost Art of System Administration by orev on Saturday September 10, 2022 @11:11PM (#32796508)
Right. And then we’ll see how secure your app is running after you follow a bunch of random blog posts telling you to make all files world-writable, or to disable SELinux, or just turn off the firewall. And then the inevitable “it works for me” when we try to push to production and it all breaks.
Re:The Lost Art of System Administration by mbrodersen on Sunday September 11, 2022 @09:51PM (#32805096)
Just assume for a second that you are talking to an experienced competent developer here. I have never done any of the things you mention. And I have never worked with a developer who did any of the things you mention.

I have however worked with a narcissistic power hungry incompetent sys admin in the past. That doesn’t mean though that I automatically assume that all sys admins are the same. The one I am working with right now is highly competent and a pleasure to work with. And he is smart enough to simply give VM’s with root access to developers who ask for it.