Re: certification

[paw@northstar.dartmouth.edu]

Stephen Potter opines:

	Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com> whispered:
	| 1. a group which accepts information via a secure
	| Web form, but then wants to keep the information
	| secure; the info is PGP encrypted in the CGI
	| script and sent off to a "drop box" machine, which
	| accepts this stuff but otherwise doesn't talk on
	| the net. Being able to organise something like
	| this is not trivial, and not a common skill among
	| sysadmins.
	
	There's a good reason that skill isn't common among SAs.  It isn't an SAs
	job.  This should be the job of a web developer, a programmer.  SA are not
	programmers.
	
Maybe not, but if you think SAs don't have to do this sort of thing, you're
living in a different reality from many of us.  A mere programmer wouldn't
necessarily understand all the security ramifications of such a system, and
*someone* has to set up the box and webserver...

Greg's not saying that _every_ SA needs this skill, but some do.  In any
case, Knowledge Is Good.

Pat Wilson
paw@dartmouth.edu