Re: A few potential requirements

["R.P. Aditya" <aditya@grot.org>]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 04:41:52PM -0700, john heasley wrote:
> > While talking about hardware-access requirements, what do folks feel about
> > "reset to factory default" requirements? or is that out-of-scope?
> 
> you mean 'erase config'?  REQUIRED.  as should a way to break into a box
> who's password(s) have been forgotten (w/o flipping dipswitches - try
> doing that with remote hands).

I meant the latter -- what method do you advocate?  I prefer dipswitches to
inane things like "short pins 2 and 3 of the serial console port together,
reboot, remove the short and reboot again" (honest, I'm not joking). Do your
ops folks walk around with straightened paper-clips?

Adi