best practices for administration

[Trevor Sullivan]

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David Bear wrote:

> Since the BSD community seems to be more security conscious than
> other (read windows system administrators) groups, I wanted to see
> if anyone here would have any pointers to best practices documents
> when administering ANY operating system, not just FreeBSD. I am
> assuming that many of you must manage other operating systems as
> well.
>
> The nexus of my query lies in my attempt to have our central IT
> folks issue additional identities for users to have when
> administering the systems versus doing productivity work on them.
> I'd like to understand what is done generally when granting users
> permissions to do things on the operating system that imply
> 'administration', ie installing software, adding printers,
> modifying system scripts, etc. There are some here who think that
> putting standard user ID's into administrative 'groups' is
> sufficient for granting such priveledges.
>
> hopefully, I'm not being too obscure.

A while ago I happened across the CentOS documentation (copied from
RedHat's basically) which you can find here:
http://www.centos.org/docs/4/. This has been quite helpful for me,
especially regarding things such as user notification, problem
resolution etc.

- -Trevor
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