Re: From Experience (and In Hindsight)...
When I was consulting on an SAP installation in the late 90s they had one central SAP host that all the others trusted for passwordless SSH root login (it was the 90s, and it was pre-production, and I didn't set this up)
Naturally, as the various QA and production hosts were being set up, tested, etc. there were a lot of reboots required. The problem was, the 'central host' was very important to developers, and these were old school Unix servers that took like a half hour to fully boot due to all the connected storage. So a few times someone (not me!) rebooted the central host by mistake.
To fix that I aliased the 'reboot' command in the root shell profile to "echo 'use reboot-`hostname`'" and a reboot-`hostname` command to actually run reboot. No more accidental reboots of the central host after that, and SAP devs quit complaining about the Basis guys screwing up their work.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
