Re: [cobalt-users] Root access from IHP

[Bob Griffor <bgriffor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 09:37 PM 10/12/2000 -0400, you wrote:

It really depends on what your ISP's policies on the subject.  It is not 
unusual for ISP's that sell dedicated servers (ones that you did not buy 
outright) to place a user on the cobalt in order to do maintainence, in 
fact, it is quite common.  If you are co-locating the cobalt (you own the 
server, your just renting rack space), I would say that it is probably not 
appropriate (But again, you should refer to your contract).  As long as 
your the ONLY one doing maintainence on your RaQ, and don't have that as 
part of the deal, I would say that you are the only one that should have 
administrative privledges. IMHO

> This is really a policy question I guess. We just realized (only took a 
> couple of months) thatthe SysAdmin from the company which we colocate our 
> server had set himself up a root access. This was done without telling us. 
> He has, from the logs, being going into our server at least a couple of 
> times per month since we had the server with them.

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Bob Griffor - bgriffor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Network Operations Center Analyst
Interliant (Fomerly Sage Networks)
"Building Global Communities"