I've seen this situation before, all too many times: system
administrators who do all they can to limit what people can do on the
system. Instead of viewing their jobs as serving the primary purpose of
enabling users to do useful things with the system, they are far more
concerned that their own workloads don't grow. The larger the
organization, the more resistant the system administrator is. To
'convince him otherwise' it is almost always necessary to go to his
supervisor or the head honcho, explain what you want to do, and ask
him/her to remove the obstacle to progress with a direct order to the
system administrator to make it so. You don't win a lot of friends that
way, but at least you can get things accomplished.
Regards,
Karl Simanonok
> With all due respect, I suspect you're not a network admin!
>
> Any time you open a port, it's a risk - it's another thing that has to
be
> watched. There are typically limited resources for what a network
> administrator can deal with, and no matter what products you buy to
help
> monitor security issues, they still require human guidance and
> intervention.
> I've seen enough misconfigured firewalls to know that you can't simply
buy
> hardware and software to solve security issues.
>
> The question here is, do the risks outweigh the rewards? From the
network
> admin's point of view, probably not - until someone convinces him
> otherwise.
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