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On 5/8/24 04:53, D wrote:Ahh but that was the thing. This was not IBM provided, but some guys private online repository. That's what made me feel a bit uneasy about it. Of course I assume that guy is/was as good as it gets (well I did at least, since the guy who told me to do it that way was very senior) but today I wouldn't be so quick to install from a private repository.Reminds me of when I was administering a bunch of power servers with AIX on them. No bash as far as the eye could see.>
Yep.
>A more senior consultant at that time, told me he always installed some private guys gnu utils on every AIX machine he administered.>
If I have the option I prefer to install sudo (not all systems I administer have it, but most do), Zsh, vim, and git. That encompasses most of my interactive shell environment and allows me to feel at home. -- HOWEVER, I do so through proper change approval process. I don't do it if it's not approved.
>I remember thinking that it did feel a bit insecure, but that was the way they did it.>
I don't know. It would be highly situationally dependent. The security is only one aspect. A manageable an modicum of risk may be well worth it if the tool helps reduce errors and / or makes things considerably faster.
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Contrary to what a co-worker thinks and says, a LOT of GNU tools are installed by default with the AIX Base OS (BOS) from IBM. More are included as optional components. If it was something on the DVDs from IBM, it's probably okay. My co-worker derogatorily refers to it as "shareware" with disdain in his voice. I haven't pointed out to him yet that ssh is what he calls shareware.
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