[Gllug] Audit Season...

[Jose Luis Martinez]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Nix<nix at esperi.org.uk> wrote:
> On 24 Jun 2009, Andy Millar uttered the following:
>
>>> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:24:18 +0100
>>> Simon Morris <mozrat at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > I've been asked to run the following commands on our Linux/Unix
>>> > systems by an internal auditor.
>>
>> They are auditors.
>>
>> You do what they say, exactly what they say, nothing more, nothing less.
>
> Actually I've told auditors they were full of shit in the past, and got
> away with it too.
>
>
> It can be done.

I would be extremely careful with dishing such advice. Seriously, SOX
and other national and international regulations could mean you are
actually breaking the law if you are obtrusive to certain types of
auditors, and certainly your boss may have to do lots of explaining if
one of his charges is being unhelpful.

To say that you got away with it implies that there was a certain
level of risk to your position, to each one his own, but I frankly
fail to see why one should be obtrusive.
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