[dedward]

If your admins don't understand the code and crash things - that's an organizational problem that can be corrected.

Giving developers admin access isn't the answer.

I've seen both sides - where admins didn't undersatnd the environment well enough or the application in it and broke it, and where developers didn't understand the system well enough and pushed out code releases that broke things. Neither situation should exist if things are set up correctly.

Things should be automated and documented. You need systems knowledge as part of your development process.... it's not enough just to throw a PHP guy at something..... everything needs to be architected in a way everyone understands.

Several very important standards require that developers do not have access to production (PCI comes to mind if I'm not mistaken).

[Drbble]

You think PCI law can tell the difference between a developer and a sysadmin?