Today's target for a boot up the ass

[unixronin]

Software companies (or developers) who write Windows educational software for kindergarten-age kids that works only if run with Administrator privileges.

Comments

Seen it on Unix, too

[lonewolf545.livejournal.com]

Very first IT company I worked for was using software developed inhouse using a commercial database package, the 'software' was mostly ksh scripts called from a menu program. The developers were also their only system administrators, and did all of their coding and testing as root. I spent a few months trying to track down all of the dependencies to set minimal permission levels so I could have the users run as something other than UID 0, but never did manage to finish it (of course, management was idiots too, which was why I bailed after a year).

Re: Seen it on Unix, too

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Uh, yeah. Bad mistake, anyone can make it. :p
(One likes to think most Unix people know better, but.....)

I have a very few scripts that will work properly only as root, or which suid themselves to root during certain critical sections of execution. But they have very good reasons for doing it. (One does so in order to explicitly insmod and rmmod a kernel module, for instance.)