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> SYSADMIN PURITY TEST
>
>
>
>
> _________________________________________________________________
>
>
>
>Revision History
>
> Original version 0.1 by Vicki Brown and Blake Jones .
>
> Some questions added and the whole thing HTMLised by Alistair Young
> for 0.2.
>
>
> _________________________________________________________________
>
>Introduction
>
>
>
> So I'm among those who points and laughs and makes fun of those who
> write in all caps (unless they're VAX users, in which case I drop
> pennies into the slots on their monitors so they can buy some coffee),
> but I thought it justifiable in this case, given the magnitude of what
> I'm about to post.
>
> Yes, this is that same fu**ing purity test that I asked you all (or
> your predecessors, depending on the turnover (good boy!) rate) for
> your submission (good boy!) oh...about... *cough* *cough* ago (the
> file I have on another account is dated Dec 13 1994, for example).
>
> I'd feed you some line about how busy I've been the past year, but
> we're all sysadmins here, and you know it's all about illusion anyway
> (about which I'll make a separate post soon).
>
> So why is it finally here, you ask?
>
> Well, because of a little elf^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdd The story goes
> like this: I'm cluster-sitting while the real admins have gone to
> visit their happy little families. One of these admins actually has
> been logging in. Don't ask me, he's new, maybe that's it. But he does
> it as an escape from a programming job he has, so it's not so bad.
> Even better is that rather than really sysadmin, we basically shoot
> the breeze with zwrites (zephyr rewls)...yes, yes, I'm almost done,
> you can skip ahead to the test if you want, I jus' gotta get my props
> in...anyway, I was tellin him about some flame-bait I posted on
> alt.2600 (booo), and he exclaimed about the S/N there, and sang the
> praises of asr. I told him how I daren't show my face there, given the
> guilt over this test...and the rest is history: He finished up the
> thing in one night, totally putting me to shame. So here it is, thanks
> to Blake Jones ([email protected]), famous lurker and awesome
> sysadmin.
>
> Without further ado:
>
>
> _________________________________________________________________
>
>Sysadmin Purity Test, V0.2
>
>
>
> Like the "real" purity tests in colleges across america, this
> sysadmin's purity test has been scientifically designed to determine
> the "purity" of a sysadmin: too pure, you're a virgin, and too little
> purity, you're dangerous to people you come in contact with. The
> authors hereby disassociate themselves from this creation, and any
> injuries resulting from the use of this test, whether for hiring
> purposes, dating purposes, or whatnot, are declared to be not the
> fault of the authors. Thank you.
>
> There are 555 questions.
>
> Accounts
>
>
>
> ___Have you ever created an account?
> ___--A non-user account?
>
> ___Have you ever deleted an account?
> ___--Restored a deleted account?
> ___--Should you not have deleted it?
>
> ___Have you ever detected a security breach (breakin, root compromise,
> or some such)?
> ___--Did you track down the jerk who did it?
> ___--Did you identify him/her?
> ___--Did you sick the FBI on him/her?
> ___--Did you get a conviction?
> ___--Did the perpetrator kill him/herself in jail out of remorse?
>
> ___Have you ever threatened to kill someone's account if they ask
> another stupid question?
> ___--Did you?
>
> ___Have you ever noticed that some 'remove_user' shell scripts clean
> up by removing the user's home directory?
> ___--Did you notice this before you removed a system account whose
> home directory is '/'?
>
> ___Do you keep more than one account for personal use?
>
> ___Do you have accounts on alien networks (not administered by you)
> for "debugging" purposes?
> ___--Do you not allow them on your own system?
>
> ___Do you grant "guest" accounts to your friends?
> ___--Does the number of guests ever exceed the number of legitimate
> users?
>
> ___Have you ever had an account on a machine on the ARPANET?
> ___--BITNET?
> ___--MILNET (only if you don't work in the military)?
> ___--Do they still work?
> ___--Can you prove it?
>
> ___Do you have a user named "ingres"?
> ___--Have you caught people logged in from remote sites into that
> account?
>
>
>
> Passwords
>
>
>
> ___Do your accounts have passwords?
> ___--All of them?
>
> ___Do you run Crack on passwords?
> ___--Does it take longer than a week?
> ___----Even though it checks only recently changed passwords?
>
> ___Have you ever used any of the following passwords (case
> insensitive):
> * abcdef
> * 123456
> * qwerty
> * xyzzy
> * M1PQ
> * password
>
>
> ___--Were these used as root passwords?
> ___--More than once?
>
> ___Do you have a different root pasword than your own password?
> ___--Is it crack-able?
>
> ___Have you ever forgotten your root password?
> ___--Did it matter?
>
> ___Do you have multiple uid-0 accounts on your system?
> ___--Do any of them have no password?
> ___--Do any of them have no password and a standard shell?
>
> ___Do you have equivalenced hosts (.rhosts, hosts.equiv)?
> ___--Did you check user verifications?
>
> ___Do you use shadow passwords?
> ___--Does your system officially support it?
>
> ___Do you have passworded groups?
>
> ___Do you have any padded-password systems installed?
> ___--Are they used?
>
> ___Do you silently change users' passwords?
> ___--More than once per week?
>
> ___Do you trust someone else with the root password while you're on
> vacation?
>
> ___Do all dial-up IP users use the same dial-up IP account?
> ___--Without security handshaking?
>
>
>
> Security
>
>
>
> ___Have you ever accepted a UUCP file?
> ___--Without password protection?
>
> ___Do you use maximum auditing?
>
> ___Do you audit each user?
>
> ___Do you subscribe to all of the following mailing lists :
> * 8lgm
> * bugtraq
> * cert advisories
> * ciac
>
>
> ___--Do you read all the posts?
> ___--Have you ever posted to one of them?
> ___----Did you get flamed?
> ___--you don't subscribe to these lists, because Dan Farmer and Gene
> Spafford tell you personally when they discover a new security hole.
>
> ___Do you use rdist?
> ___--Is the security bug active?
>
> ___Have you ever been trying to fix the system clock and expired
> root's password?
> ___--Then logged out?
>
> ___Has your site ever been broken into?
> ___--By a KGB agent?
> ___--Did you care?
>
> ___Have you ever broken into someone else's site?
> ___--Is that how you got your job?
>
>
>
> Networks
>
>
>
> ___Have you ever configured a network interface?
>
> ___Have you ever connect a machine to the Net?
> ___--From scratch?
>
> ___Have you ever ifconfig'ed down the network interface through which
> you were communicating to the machine?
>
> ___Have you ever logged some traffic to/from the Internet?
>
> ___Have you ever logged *all* traffic to/from the Internet?
>
> ___--Did you read the logs?
> ___--More than 3 times a month?
> ___--Daily?
>
> ___Have you ever filtered IP traffic?
>
> ___Have you ever built a proxy service firewall?
>
> ___Have you ever concealed portions of your network?
>
> ___Have you ever concealed your entire network except for a proxy
> firewall?
>
> ___Have you ever wormhole-tunneled traffic to conceal portions of your
> network?
>
> ___Have you ever floodpinged your supervisor's workstation?
>
> ___Can you program routing?
> ___--gated?
> ___--A Cisco/Wellfleet/Annex/whatever brand dedicated router?
> ___--KA9Q?
>
> ___Have you ever used an IP address different than the one assigned to
> you?
> ___--On purpose?
> ___--To get around a network problem?
> ___--To increase your access privileges?
> ___--To hide your acts?
>
> ___Have you ever brought up a PPP link?
> ___--Between two Cisco routers?
> ___--On the AUX port?
> ___--Did you run IP over it?
> ___--Did you run IPX over it?
> ___--Did you run transparent bridging over it?
> ___--Did it stay up for more than 10 minutes?
> ___--Did you use the undocumented ppp commands?
>
> ___Have you ever plugged both Token Ring & Ethernet modules into the
> same backplane & segment on a Synoptics 3800?
> ___--Did they work?
> ___--Did you have connectivity?
>
> ___Have you ever tried to configure EIGRP and IGRP at the same time?
> ___--With the same autonomous numbers?
> ___--Did it work?
>
> ___Have you ever updated a Cisco 2500 router?
> ___--While it was running?
> ___--From flash?
> ___--Did it work?
>
> ___Have you ever accidently caused a routing loop on your WAN?
> ___--Did you fix it?
> ___--Did you do it on purpose?
>
> ___Do you know your netmask?
>
> ___Do you know the IP addresses for all your vital equipment?
> ___--Do you have them in /etc/hosts for just in case?
> ___----Causing a machine that moved around to be denied by
> tcp_wrapper?
> ___--And the Ethernet addresses?
>
> ___Have you ever telnetted to your mailhost, and then back to your
> loghost, and then back to your mailhost, ad infinitum, 'cause you felt
> like it?
>
> ___Have you ever configured BIND/DNS?
> ___--Were you running NIS at the same time?
> ___--Did you want to blow up SUN Microsystems as a result?
>
> ___Have you ever renamed a server?
> ___--Unintentionally?
> ___--More than once?
>
> ___Can you build a primary nameserver for a domain?
> ___--Without looking at an example?
> ___--Including correct MX records?
> ___--Do you have the latest named.root?
> ___--Can you give IP addresses of 3 or more of the root nameservers?
>
> ___Have you ever dialed out on a non-dialout device? (mainly Linux
> machines)
> ___--Was it a block device?
> ___--Did you recover?
>
>
>
> Hardware
>
>
>
> ___Have you ever crashed the server?
> ___--More than once in a day?
> ___--On purpose?
>
> ___Have you ever lost power to the server because your UPS died?
> ___--Did it crash a critical application?
> ___--Did you explain the irony to your boss?
> ___--Did he think it was funny?
>
> ___During a reboot, have you ever pulled the plug on the wrong
> machine?
> ___--More than once?
> ___--Did you go back and label the (backs of) the machines?
>
> ___Have you ever formatted the wrong disk?
> ___--Was this other disk important?
> ___--Did the owner want to kill you?
> ___--Were you able to unformat it successfully?
> ___--Did the owner then treat you like a god?
> ___--Do you thrive on being treated like a god?
>
> ___Have you ever fried an important piece of hardware?
> ___--Did it cost more than a month's salary?
> ___--More than a year's?
> ___--Did you tell anyone?
> ___--Did you attempt to return it to the manufacturer and claim it
> didn't work when you got it?
> ___--Has this happened more than once in a day?
>
> ___Have you ever rebooted the system because it was easier to reboot
> then fix some problem with the system up?
>
> ___When your hardware breaks, do you call your service provider and
> say 'I need a xyzzy NOW' and fix it yourself after hours, rather than
> just calling and asking them to do it?
>
> ___If you actually let service providers touch your equipment, do you
> berate them for not using a wrist strap, not leaving the equipment
> plugged in, and other precautions?
> ___--Do you disobey these yourself because you "know what you're
> doing"?
>
> ___Have you ever watched the vendor's field circus take 3 hours to
> discover that a disk drive failure was caused by a capacitor on the
> controller that had lost all of its magic smoke, even though everyone
> could smell it and there were scorch marks on the board?
>
> ___Do you make your own cables?
> ___--Do they work?
> ___--Have you ever wondered why anyone would *buy* a serial cable?
>
> ___Have you ever built a SCSI chain with more than 3 different kinds
> of connectors?
>
> ___Have you ever installed a SCSI bus or Ethernet cable that exceeded
> the specified maximum length by more than 50%?
> ___--Did it work?
>
> ___Have you ever strung 5 or more converters/tranceivers together to
> make a cable do something it was never intended?
>
> ___Have you ever used an old disk drive as a door stop?
> ___--Did people ask you what it was?
> ___--Did you answer?
> ___----With the right answer?
> ___--Did they shake their heads?
>
> ___How many versions of Sun's eeprom do you know how to program?
>
> ___Have you ever toggled in a boot sequenece on a PDP/11?
>
> ___Have you ever used a machine with more then ten blinking lights?
>
> ___Have you ever mounted racks of fake led's to make your hardware
> look more impressive?
>
> ___Have you ever "accidentally" unplugged your phone?
>
> ___Have you ever manipulated a floppy disk?
> ___--A hard disk?
>
> ___Have you ever passed a fluid into your computer?
>
> ___Do you clean the DAT-head with your wet fingertip?
>
> ___Do you regard the humming of the vans of a computer as "a natural
> sound"?
> ___--Can you not sleep without it?
>
> ___Have you ever plugged a parallel printer into the external port of
> a AT bus tape drive controller?
> ___--Did you understand what happened?
>
> ___Have you ever plugged a Thicknet cable into a parallel port?
>
> ___Have you ever used SMD drives?
> ___--Did you install them correctly the first time?
> ___--Did you get a hernia putting them into the rack?
> ___--Have they caused you permanent deafness?
> ___--Are they still running?
> ___----Without overflowing their bad block tables?
>
> ___Have you ever scheduled a down time for a production file server so
> that you could use one of its hardware components in a personal
> machine to bring up an operating system with a pathetically limited
> set of installation options?
> ___--Did the production file server work afterwards?
> ___--Was it back up in time?
> ___--Did you wipe the operating system from the personal machine two
> days later because it was pathetically limited in other ways as well?
>
>
>
> Backups
>
>
>
> ___Do you have *any* backups?
>
> Do you do backups:
> ___--More than once a month?
> ___--More than once a week?
> ___--More than once a day?
> ___--Did you start doing this after a crash?
>
> ___Have you ever lied to your boss about having a current backup of
> the company database?
> ___--Did he believe you?
> ___--Do you have a current backup right now?
>
> ___Do you verify your backups?
> ___--Have you ever checked it, found it was okay, and later discovered
> it was an old backup, because the new backup never started?
>
> ___Have you ever installed a SCSI tape drive and given it the same ID
> has your second hard disk?
> ___--Did you then attempt to do a backup?
> ___--Successfully?
> ___--Did you manage to avoid getting fired?
>
> ___Have you ever restored a user's file from tape?
> ___--More than one file at a time?
> ___--The same file more than once?
> ___--Was it .Xauthority *sigh*?
>
> ___Do you reliably do your own dumps before upgrading
> hardware/software?
>
> ___Have you ever had to restore data because of your fuckup?
>
> ___Have you ever had to restore data because of a vendor's fuckup?
>
> ___Do you write protect your backup when you need to recover?
> ___--Have you ever lost data because you didn't and got the restore
> wrong?
>
> ___Have you ever typed "tar cvf /usr1/important_project /dev/rst0"?
>
> ___Have you ever typed "tar cf ./filename ."?
> Did you realize the mistake:
> ___--Right away?
> ___--After 1 minute?
> ___--After 5 minutes?
> ___--After the filesystem filled?
>
> ___Have you ever detarred a tarfile containing /bin/tar?
> ___--Did you have to re-install the entire file system because of it?
>
>
>
> Filesystems
>
>
>
> ___Does your fstab file have more than 4 entries in it?
>
> ___Have you ever commented out a disk with homedirs on it from
> /etc/fstab?
> ___--"/usr"?
> ___--"/"?
> ___--Did you do so deliberately?
>
> ___Have you ever accidentally wiped out a partition through the
> careless use of metacharacters and rm -r?
> ___--And then blamed it on a power surge?
>
> ___Have you ever typed "rm -rf .*" to get rid of the files starting
> with '.'?
> ___--Did you wonder why it was taking so long?
>
> ___Have you ever newfs'ed the wrong partition?
> ___--Did you remark on your mistake?
> ___--Did you think that it was funny?
> ___--Did your users think so, too?
> ___----Did you care?
>
> ___Have you ever newfs'ed a mounted partition?
> ___--Was it "/"?
> ___--Did you manage to save the data?
>
> ___Have you ever had your swap and /usr partition overlap?
> ___--Did you test it with a malloc(1>>31)?
> ___--Did you catch it before the machine panic'd?
> ___--Did you figure it out within 24 hours after the panics started?
>
> ___Have you made plans for redoing the pre-defined partitions on your
> disks?
> ___--Did you think them up within one year after installing?
> ___--Within one month after installing?
>
> ___Have you ever accidentally unmounted an active filesystem?
> ___--Were you unable to remount it because your forgot the CFS
> password?
> ___----Did you run a parallel DES cracker on every other machine
> available to recover the password?
> ___------Did anybody notice?
>
> ___Have you ever rm'ed a device file?
> ___--Which was in use?
> ___--Was it /dev/null?
> ___--Was it /dev/console?
>
> ___Have you ever linked /dev/null to /dev/audio?
>
> ___Have you ever tried to boot up a system without a /dev directory?
> ___--Did it work?
>
> ___If the file system corrupts, and the /dev directory turns into a
> file, can you make a backup of critical data?
> ___--Are you prepared to explain how to do this to someone on the
> other end of a long distance phone line, on a Sunday afternoon, while
> your significant other whines in the background because lunch is late?
>
> ___Have you ever used fsdb to recover lost files?
> ___--More that 2 times?
>
> ___Have you ever used fsdb to reorder directory slot allocation
> because you couldn't be bothered doing it another way?
> ___--Did it work?
>
> ___If the first fifty inodes in a file system have been corrupted, can
> you recover the rest of the data?
> ___--Are you prepared for the fact that no one will appreciate the
> difficulties involved in doing this, and that you will be hassled to
> "hurry up" the whole time you are doing it?
>
> ___Have you ever swept your user partitions for suid executables?
> ___--More than once?
> ___--More than once a month?
> ___--More than once a week?
> ___--More than once a day?
>
> ___Have you ever mounted your user partitions -nosuid?
> ___-- -noexec?
>
> ___Have you ever accidently deleted a *LARGE* amount of data from your
> company's database using query?
> ___--Laughed at someone who did?
> ___----Did they cry?
> ___--Did you recover it?
> ___--Would it have been quicker to retype it all in instead?
>
> ___Do you have disk space allocated to each of your lost+found
> directories?
> ___--Do you understand why there should be more than one block?
>
> ___Do you run fsck and just say yes to everything?
> ___--Do you conduct your personal relationships in the same way?
>
>
>
> Files and programs
>
>
>
> ___Have you ever rm'ed /etc/passwd?
> ___--And then logged out?
> ___--And recovered it without reinstalling?
>
> ___Have you changed a single file and caused 10 machines to crash?
> ___--50?
> ___--Over 100?
>
> ___Have you ever accidentally pasted previously copied text to a root
> prompt?
> ___--More than once?
> ___--Did the paste turn out to be a valid command?
> ___--Did you have to fix it afterwards?
>
> ___Have you ever rebooted the wrong machine by forgetting you did an
> rlogin?
> ___--Did you have the hostname as part of the prompt so you don't do
> that?
>
> ___Have you ever said 'This adm3 is not adm3 compatible.. Oh, well..
> I'll use ed'.?
> ___--Was anyone impressed?
> ___--Did you know how to use it?
>
>
>
> Processes
>
>
>
> ___Have you ever killed a process of your own?
> ___--Someone else's with their knowledge?
> ___--Without their knowlege?
> ___--Without *your* knowledge?
>
> ___Have you ever exclusive-locked your processes on a CPU with mpcntl?
>
> ___Have you ever set your shell to a real-time process with priocntl?
>
> ___Have you ever put a multi-user system into single-user mode?
> ___--Unintentionally?
> ___--Did you continue to use the system, oblivious to the fact that
> all the other users were gone?
>
> ___Have you ever kill -9 -1 'd a system to see what would happen?
> ___--Without knowing what would happen?
>
> ___Have you ever killed init accidentally?
>
> ___Have you ever started two copies of init?
> ___--Without knowing what would happen?
>
> ___Have you ever tried to kill off another user, but killed one of
> your own windows instead 'cause you forgot you were using his account?
>
> ___Do you warn users before rebooting?
> ___--Do you just switch the damn thing off because you can't be
> bothered shutting all the apps down and warning the users and
> waiting...?
> ___--Did you lie about what happened, afterwards?
>
>
>
> Operating systems
>
>
>
> ___Do you use more than one operating system on your computer?
> ___--More than three?
> ___--More than five?
> ___--Do you use just one, but it's one you wrote yourself?
>
> ___Do you run more then 5 architectures?
> ___--Is there less then 100 of one of them in existence?
> ___----Did you port the OS to it yourself?
>
> ___Have you ever sent a patch for a kernel bug to the OS manufacturer?
> ___--And found it incorporated verbatim in the next release?
>
> ___Have you ever compiled a kernel?
> ___--Did you strip "options NFS" out of it?
> ___--Did you strip "options SNIT" out of it?
> ___--Did you strip "options TMPFS" out of it?
> ___--Have you ever compiled one and needed the (unsaved) original
> version?
> ___--Did you know how to fix that?
> ___--Did you wait until morning to fix it?
>
> ___Can you install a file/disk server?
> ___--With Novell?
> ___--With NFS?
> ___--With both?
>
> ___Can you install a diskless workstation with X?
>
> ___Have you ever run an AIX system?
> ___--Do you enjoy running an AIX system?
>
> ___Have you ever installed more than 16MB of RAM in a machine running
> Xenix?
> ___--Did you ever work out what was wrong?
>
> ___Have you ever run a PDP-11 system?
> ___--Have you ever used TECO?
> ___----And understood it?
> ___--Did you use TECO to gain access that you shouldn't have?
>
> ___Have you ever used a Cray?
>
> ___Have you ever used a Sun?
> ___--A Sun 4?
> ___--A Sun 3?
> ___--A Sun 2?
> ___--A Sun 1?
>
> ___Have you ever administered an ftp site on a sun2?
> ___--With more that 500 ftp sessions a day?
> ___--With a custom ftpd?
> ___--Which was not wu-ftpd?
>
> ___Have you ever patched a running kernel then forget to patch the
> source?
>
> ___Have you ever run ADB on the running kernel?
>
> ___Have you ever typed ls in DOS or dir in unix?
> ___--More than once a day?
>
> ___Do you enjoy writing to /dev/mem and /dev/kmem directly?
> ___--Do you enjoy letting all users do so?
>
> ___Have you ever used "wc /dev/kmem" to figure out how much memory you
> have?
>
> ___Are you sure that your homebox has no pirated software because you
> compiled it all from the source distribution?
> ___--Did you recompile it all when it became time to switch binary
> types?
>
> ___Do you own a Unix source code license?
> ___--Do you use it?
>
> ___Do you have a localisation checklist?
> ___--Does it include "rm `which smit`"? (or sam, or admintool, or
> whatever..)
> ___--Does it include "rm -rf /usr/openwin"?
> ___--Does it include "Rewrite broken vendor programs"?
> ___--Does it include "Port OS"?
> ___--Does it include "Write OS"?
> ___--Does it include "Build Hardware"?
>
>
>
> Programming
>
>
>
> ___Do you know more programming languages than presidents?
>
> ___Have you ever reverse engineered a program?
> ___--Did it work afterward?
> ___--Did you do it to get rid of those pesky "Not Registered"
> shareware messages?
> ___--Did you put your own name in there to make it *look* like you
> were registered?
>
> ___Have you ever spent your lunch hour trying to figure out a more
> efficient way to code a program that already takes less than 30
> seconds to run?
>
> ___Have you ever written a utility that performed a task already
> implemented in a standard system utility?
> ___--Was it on "company time"?
> ___--Did somebody find out later?
> ___--Did you tell them it was "research"?
> ___--Did they believe you?
>
> ___Have you ever had to fix a binary with emacs?
> ___--Did it actually work?
> ___--Was it a kernel?
>
> ___Do you know how to use /bin/ed?
> ___--Do you prefer to use /bin/ed?
> ___--Do you miss teco?
>
> ___Do you access friends' private parts in C++?
>
> ___Do you access friends' protected parts in C++?
>
> ___Have you ever made a.out?
> ___--More than five times in one night?
> ___--Without making clean afterwards?
> ___--Did you have a child process?
> ___--Did you abort(2)?
>
> ___Have you ever had to kill an infinite fork() program?
> ___--Was it yours?
>
> ___Have you ever had a user claim they wrote an infinite fork()
> program "accidentally"?
>
> ___Have you ever accidentally wedged the system because you ran your
> daemon at a negative nice value before it was completely debugged?
>
> ___Have you ever written a daemon to log some facet of system
> performance that is not normally logged?
>
> ___Has any recreational programming project ever prevented others from
> getting work done?
> ___--Did you blame the resultant [full disk|lack of inodes|high load
> average] on some application?
>
> ___Have you ever used a script to run a command on 2 separate systems
> at once?
> ___--16 systems?
> ___--64 systems?
> ___--1024 systems?
> ___--Did it crash them all?
>
> ___Do you comment your {shell scripts, perl scripts, C, ...} properly?
> ___--At all?
>
> ___Have you ever had to spend an hour rereading code you wrote to
> figure out what it does, and why you wrote it?
>
>
>
> Mail and news
>
>
>
> ___Do you have the shortest possible E-mail address?
>
> ___Have you ever read another user's mail?
>
> ___Have you ever had a user run into your office and say
> (breathlessly) "STOP THAT EMAIL MESSAGE!"
> ___--Did you?
> ___--Was it Internet mail, out-bound?
> ___----To a site you do not administer, and have no legitimate access
> to?
>
> ___Is email to "manager" or "help" funneled into a queue at your site?
> ___--Is the queue funneled into /dev/null?
>
> ___Have you ever fixed your sendmail.cf?
> ___--Did it need it?
>
> ___Did you give up on sendmail.cf 3 lines past the file header
> comments?
>
> ___Can you understand sendmail rulesets?
> ___--Have you ever written one of your own?
>
> ___Have you ever written a sendmail.cf file from scratch?
> ___--Was there a gun pointed to your head at the time?
> ___--Were you under the influence of any controlled substances?
>
> ___Have you ever edited the m4 source to sendmail.cf?
>
> ___Have you ever edited sendmail.cf for a site with IP, UUCP, Decnet
> and bitnet connections?
>
> ___Do you have default routing for pseudo-domain E-Mail?
>
> ___Does your sendmail.cf handle percent-pathed Internet E-Mail?
> ___--Bang-pathed?
> ___--Comma-pathed?
>
> ___Do you know of any bugs in your version of sendmail (or mmdf...)?
>
> ___Have you ever built a cnews, nntp or inn server?
> ___--Did you fix it?
> ___--Many times?
>
> ___Have you ever created a newsgroup?
> ___--Did it contain copies of all outgoing user articles from your
> site?
> ___--All outgoing user email from your site?
>
>
>
> Printing
>
>
>
> ___Have you ever installed a printer?
> ___--On System V?
> ___--Without using an administration tool?
>
> ___Have you ever deleted someone else's print job because the queue
> stopped?
>
> ___Have you ever deleted someone else's print job so you can send your
> print job faster?
>
>
>
> Telnet
>
>
>
> Have you:
> ___Used telnet to read mail?
> ___Used telnet to send mail?
> ___Used telnet to read and post news?
> ___Used telnet as a web browser?
> ___Used telnet as a diagnostic tool?
> ___Used telnet as an X client?
> ___Used telnet to get the time of day in California?
> ___Used telnet to finger people?
>
>
>
> Books
>
>
>
> ___Do you own more than 5 O'Reilly books?
> ___--10?
> ___--All of them?
> ___--Were they put on company bill?
>
> ___Have you written an O'Reilly Book?
>
> ___Do you own a copy of the Orange Book?
> ___--Have you read it?
>
> ___Have you ever bought a UNIX Security book?
> ___--Did you use it to hack into someone else's system?
> ___----Your own system?
>
> ___Have you ever taken RFCs home to read?
> ___--Quoted them to your SO in bed?
> ___--Do you leave them out on the coffee table and in the car so
> people know how smart you are?
>
> ___Have you written an RFC?
>
> ___Have you ever read the original Bell Labs documentation for
> lex/yacc?
> ___--vi?
> ___--ed?
>
>
>
> Personal
>
> ___Do you have 'The Magic Touch'? :-)
>
> ___Have you ever just walked into a room to troubleshoot a computer
> and have "the problem" mysteriously go away?
> ___--Does this happen all the time?
>
> ___Do the lights dim when you enter?
>
> ___Have you ever awakened in the middle of the night, not knowing
> whose keyboard your head was resting on?
>
> ___Do you fantasize that you're roling in mud?
>
> ___Have you ever do more than talk(1)?
>
> ___Have you ever finger(1)'d a cute user?
> ___--More than one?
> ___--An entire system?
>
> ___Do you like to view(1) files without close(2)?
> ___--Did you strip(1) the file yourself?
>
> ___Have you ever wanted more(1)?
>
> ___Have you ever abused a cat(1)?
>
> ___Have you ever gotten a free lunch out of your boss by betting on
> what the problem is?
> ___--Did he cause the problem?
>
> ___Have you ever told a newbie that the "any" key is the big switch
> labled "1/0"?
> ___--Did you deny it when confronted by your boss?
>
> ___Have you ever set up a "God" account so you could send system
> messages to newbies that say "Message from God:..."?
> ___--Did the newbie then run to your office and say "Come quick! Look
> at this!"?
> ___--Do you do this regularly?
> ___--Has noone figured it out yet?
>
> Is your home directory larger than:
> ___--Any luser at your site?
> ___--Any 10 lusers at your site?
> ___--The combined storage capacity of wuarchive.wustl.edu and
> ftp.uu.net?
>
> ___Have you ever used uucp to have the computer call you at home?
> ___--you, not your computer?
> ___--Used it as an alarm clock?
> ___--Offered it as a service to others?
>
> ___Have you ever sent talk requests to other users as root?
>
> ___Have you ever sent talk requests to yourself?
>
> ___Have you ever sent talk requests to Vicki Brown?
>
> ___Can you do three or more of the following without leaving your
> desk:
> * listen to music
> * play CDs
> * talk on telephone
> * write on whiteboard
> * throw darts
> * scan in papers
> * send/receive faxes
> * microwave your snacks
> * pull out a "cold one" from the fridge
> * play
> + 8mm tapes
> + 4mm tapes
> + QIC tapes
> + 9-track reels
>
>
>
> ___Have you ever chipped in for a coke machine in your office?
> ___--Do you now have one?
> ___--Do you have slabs delivered to the door every week?
>
> ___Do you have the pizza delivery company's number right under the
> 'emergency contacts' list handy to your phone?
>
> ___Have you ever used the phrase RTFM?
> ___--Shouted it?
> ___--Do you own a button with it that you wear around?
>
> ___Have you ever been to Usenix?
> ___Have you ever been to Lisa?
> ___--Have you published a paper at one of them?
> ___--Were you in the "in" crowd at these conferences?
>
> ___Do you have a couch in your machine room?
> ___A stereo?
> ___A bed?
> ___A TV?
> ___--Do you use them all regularily?
>
> ___Do you read computer magazines?
> ___--Do you admit it?
>
> ___Do you MUD/MUCK/MUSH from work?
>
> ___Have you ever swamped the network with xtrek or xpilot traffic?
> ___--Were you able to convince your boss that your site needs a faster
> network for "mission-critical applications"?
>
> ___Have you ever "decorated" your monitor/computer?
>
> ___Have you ever receive root mail complaining about a user's actions?
> ___--Was the user you?
>
> ___Have you ever been so perplexed by a problem that when someone
> walks by and says, "hello", you respond with, "OK, and you?"
>
>
>
> BOFH
>
>
>
> ___Do you read the BOFH for inspiration?
> ___--Have you ever followed any of the examples? <clickety click>
>
> ___Have you created a bofh.* newsgroup?
>
> ___Have you ever set a user's password minimum length to something
> greater than 30 characters?
> ___--How about that and the expiration time to 1 minute?
>
> ___Have you ever set a user's home directory to /dev/null?
>
> ___Have you ever emailed a core dump to someone who continuously
> leaves a core dump every time s/he logs off the machine?
>
> ___Do you ever run your jobs with negative nice values?
>
> ___Have you ever shutdown the system during peak time?
> ___--With no notice?
>
> ___Have you ever lied to your users about the regularity of your
> backup schedule?
> ___--Without having a backup schedule?
> ___--Without having a backup device?
>
> Have you ever done any of the following:
> ___ # cd ~user; touch \*
> ___ # ln -s /dev/null /var/spool/mail/user
> ___ # echo "echo 'You have new mail.'" >> ~user/.cshrc
> ___ # chmod -R 000 ~user/*
>
>
>
> Meta-questions
>
>
>
> ___Have you submitted a question in this test?
> ___Did you understand every question on this test?
>
>
>
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