Debugging on Live Systems
George V. Neville-Neil · Queue · 2011
I’ve been trying to debug a problem on a system at work, but the control freaks who run our production systems don’t want to give me access to the systems on which the bug always occurs. I haven’t been able to reproduce the problem in the test environment on my desktop, but every day the bug happens on several production systems. I’m at the point of thinking about getting a key logger so I can steal the passwords necessary to get onto the production systems and finally see the problem "in the wild." I’ve never worked for such a bunch of fascists in my entire career.