[SLL] sharing superuser account is always bad policy, right?

[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 09:24 -0800, Phil Mocek wrote:
>  
> Is this practice typical among "Web hosting" companies who provide
> dedicated Linux servers?

If you want them to do maint work for you, they either have to have the
root credentials or a user account with sudo rights.  They shouldn't
have to reboot your box to root it in order to do simple tasks on your
behalf.

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