From owner-freebsd-newbies Sat Jan 8 7:17:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.18.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9D2615060 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 07:17:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Received: from moritz.alleswirdgelber (ascend-tk-p162.rhrz.uni-bonn.de [131.220.244.162]) by f1node03.rhrz.uni-bonn.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA28672 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 16:17:07 +0100 Received: from localhost (uzs106@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moritz.alleswirdgelber (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id NAA00669 for ; Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:18:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2000 13:18:06 +0100 (CET) From: Heiko Recktenwald X-Sender: uzs106@moritz.alleswirdgelber To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Certification - Sysadmin liability ? In-Reply-To: <200001071722.JAA17221@pau-amma.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, > Well, there's a professional group of systems administrators (SAGE;it's > affiliated with USENIX, which is another organization that it's a good > idea to know about). > > And the notion of "certification for systems administrators" tends to be > one of the more contentious issues discussed, both in the sage-members > mailing list and at face-to-face meetings. What should a certification be good for ? I dont think BSD needs promotion, and else ? Sysadmin liability comes to mind. Well, as a law student, not a professional admin, I think all cases are too different, to be judged according to the fact if somebody had a general license to admin or not. But I dont know any cases. Are there any ? Heiko To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message