He's talking about the fact that IT has promised the department admins the ability to lock IT out of their servers.
Nothing to see here, move along. On 9/27/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote: > > Honestly, I don't know what you mean by "AD lockout". :) > > -- > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 > http://www.puryear-it.com > > Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices > > Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration > > > willhill wrote: > > The problems is that people like you are already running ADs of their > own and > > think they are doing a better job than IT will. I've gotten conflicting > > reports of how much control this will actually give the IT people. IT > claims > > they will let you lock them out and there's no way around that lock out. > > Others have their doubts. These people know their machines and their > > department needs much better than the IT people do, so I can understand > their > > suspicion and fear. Job security is another thing for them to worry > about. > > > > So, Dustin, who's right about the AD lockout? > > > > On Thursday 27 September 2007 10:36 am, Dustin Puryear wrote: > >> My thoughts are that if LSU owns the equipment, then they get to manage > >> it. And when it comes to AD, fact is, I *like* AD. It's powerful and > has > >> some very strong policy enforcement mechanisms. > >> > >> What I think gets lost in the shuffle sometimes is the fact that it > >> costs much more to manage a box than it does to buy a box. MUCH MORE. > >> And it's a recurring expense. So any mechanism that makes improves > >> management is usually fine by me. :) > >> > >> This goes for Windows, Linux, whatever. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at brlug.net > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070927/7700cd34/attachment.html
