Cargo Cult sysadmining

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Mon Aug 6 11:35:54 UTC 2012


On Sat, 2012-08-04 at 21:30 -0500, Javier Perez wrote:
> Is there any list of Cargo cult sysadmin practices for Fedora?

Just look at the feature list on the documentation, or websites, and the
idiot admins will target them first.  And, if you have a desktop that
still has normal menus, look through the system admin items for more
ideas.

Disabling SELinux
Disabling firewalls
Removing Pulseaudio
Removing Network Manager
Not configuring their DHCP server, but messing around with all the clients.
Presetting "yes" as a a robot answer before yum installing/updating
Running as root
Buggering up the screen DPI instead of changing font sizes
Setting up auto-login, or logins without a password
Using the same password for everything
Only ever trying out Gnome or KDE
Installing everything, and the neighbour's kitchen sink


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