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[–] Khaos 2 points 1 point (+3|-2) ago  (edited ago)

What a fucking moron, that story is total BS. A hardware jockey in a datacenter would not be access to log into the machines, much less have root access to it with "a special command called sudo". That story reads like a 12 year old wrote it.

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[–] embers 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

The purpose of sudo is precisely to allow normal users to execute commands that require elevated privileges without giving them root access. For example a backup operator might be allowed to issue a command that backs up the system partitions.

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[–] Hmmm 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

He's actually right. Data Techs in amazon do no have shell access to hosts.

They have access to switches and routers, and they can move hardware around, but most can't log onto parent hardware hosts, and definitely not onto VMs. A data tech should not be able to see what is running on a hw parent.