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		nupark2 on Oct 1, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “I hate almost all software” — Ryan Dahl Unless I've misunderstood something about that. It happens. You just maintain a local/serial-only root account for that eventuality. [Edit] And make sure internet-facing production services don't rely on administrative LDAP.

burgerbrain on Oct 1, 2011 [–]

divtxt is proposing that exactly those things be removed.

nupark2 on Oct 1, 2011 | [–]

Yes, and that's stupid, and I'm explaining how we made accounts work fine for multiple users (in production, across 100+ servers).

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