Here we go again 
At work, where ever that is, on how many computers/servers/workstations do you have root access?
Only count unix or linux boxes, thanks (no mainframes, windows or older macs, etc).
Got over a hundred here - various Solaris versions (7, 8, 9, 10), Gentoo Linux, RHEL, VMware ESX, Mac OS X.
This will double over the next few weeks as we're implementing 12 T2000s each running around 10 zones.
Cheers,
ZB
All of 'em! If I have access, I have root. Just "sudo bash" and onward and upward!
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This is at my new job. A huge mixed environment of Solaris 8 and 10 and RHEL and SLES 9. I am in the build team though and am not supposed to access production servers. This does not mean that I cannot and as a result, have access to over 5000 servers globally. 
At my older job, I was in production support and had root access to over 200 Solaris 8, 9 and 10 servers.
Interesting poll, I have never thought of that 
At the old company I had root access to more than 70 (production + dev + var ) servers - mostly FreeBSD, some linux and SunOS 5.8. Currently more than 20 - aix, solaris, linux.
I have root access to a few hundred of each of Solaris, AIX, and Linux named hosts and something like 3-4 thousand linux blades.
How are we counting VM's?
Without counting VM's or partitions about 160 RHEL, and 65 or so Solaris boxes of varying pedigrees.
Last position was about 45 RHEL and about 400 HPUX.
VMs?
Up to you
A VM is an independent server with its own IP address, access routes and stuff... I think it counts.
Oooh... gimme! I just like that OS. Dunno why.
I have access to some 800+ Solaris 8/9/10 ( SPARC ) boxes, and 300+ SLES boxes. I am not counting VMs, becasue if I do I have no idea of what the numbers are.
1 comuter with remote access to 2 remote dedicated
More than 15 or so i guess, ranging from HPux to AiX as well as Solaris and Linux (which is my preferred :D)
:sigh: one :sigh:
It actually makes me wonder what some of you are doing with root access to hundreds of servers. And what industry the business is in.
To answer my own question, we're an electrical supply distributor (I.E. We sell products to electricians and building mantenance people, etc). We have 17 locations and the unix box runs our business software. We have Windows servers for email, domain and file servers, etc. The users have ordinary PCs.
To my opinion you cannot manage a box without root access. So I have root access to all boxes I'm responsible for, both AIX (approx. 25), physical RHEL (approx. 80) and virtual (vm) RHEL (approx 120).
We are using both sudo (no direct root access) and direct root access. We are moving away from direct root access and moving towards sudo root access. Although I'm not convinced that this is safer, I'm very much in favor of this method.
We have 2 datacenters with ~70 p5 machines each, mostly p570 and some p550. All of them are run in LPAR mode. There is a dwindling number of 6H1s, M80s, B50s and the likes.
puts tongue in cheek I dunno why either. AIX forever.
bakunin
Here we have about 100 HP-UX servers, 300 Solaris Servers and 100 Linux Servers.
I think an appropriate question might be what is the ratio of admins to servers. Here we have approximately 500 servers, 8 systems admins, 5 architects and 2 security specialists, all of which are essentially Unix admins. That makes our ratio 500:15 or 33 servers per admin. Maybe next time we can do a poll like this.
When I worked with .com/.net registry I had root on > 1000 boxes that no-one in their right mind would want root on. Never touched most. Working more sedately in development the most I've had root on was about 150. When I worked k12 I supported 300+ nodes dtd.
Have 9 p690 Regattas at this time. Up to four months ago, I had a mix of 50 Sun v120 and v240 scattered across the United States. I changed jobs. The Regattas are also scattered across the United States. But they are locked down tighter than a coffin lid by DoD contractor rules. I can log in for monitoring only. But need a designated Quality Assurance guy watching me follow a pre-approved script for any script installations. Cost of each p690 is several times the sum total cost of all the Sun servers. That puts me on an ego trip!
root on over 300 solaris boxes and about 5 HPUX and 5 linux
I took a new job recently.
Although I can't change my vote, my response is now two servers at work that I have root access to. Woo hoo!
But, still, that's ALL the unix servers we have. And one of them is merely a backup.
I still wonder what some of you people are doing with root access to hundreds of servers...
wow, so great. I'm wishing to admin more than 100 *nix servers.