Comment Re:At the risk of being flamed to hell (Score 1) 172
yes, yes and yes.
My current policy is to setup sudo to allow them to use the yum command and that is it. Anything else is asking for trouble. (which is pretty much what the old default in Fedora 12 acheived)
One person I gave the root password and I told him to use yum/the pretty gui to install stuff, 3 days later he had downloaded dozens of random rpms from god knows where. At which point I came along and just typed "yum -y install randomScientificSoftware"
This guy is a pretty high up scientist, so his time isn't cheap and he wasted 3 days on this. He could be doing whatever his specialist field is instead of trying to figure out what is the most difficult way to install software on linux.
If I don't give root passwords, then they'll report to their supervisors saying that the reason they can't do anywork is because I haven't given them a root password.