Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 17:16:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Cc: Evan Sarmiento <evms@cs.bu.edu> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Active Directory Message-ID: <20011007170055.Q6509-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33L2.0110071559040.86536-100000@ictus.catastrophe.net>
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On Sun, 7 Oct 2001 uid0@catastrophe.net wrote: > On or about Oct 7, 2001 at 15:17 [-0400] Evan Sarmiento proclaimed: > ; I have indeed taken it to his superior, which is the Systems [...] > Unfortunately, you've just put yourself in a situation that makes your life > more difficult than it was to be. By going above his head, he now longer > will put trust in you about any matters, and quite frankly - won't listen > to you anymore than he did previously. It doesn't sound particularly like this guy is one to worry about having his trust. It does put you in a situation where you need to worry about coming into future conflict with him. If you were ever thinking of doing any security or networking investigation on this network you better think again. Just don't do anything out of the ordinary on his network and if he tries to blame some network outage on you, make sure to patiently and resposibly take the issue up with his superior again. Sometime between 1-4 years from now you'll be out of this school and won't have to deal with him (on the other hand, he's stuck with the impression of him that you've made with his superior for as long as he's at this job =) > Candidly, I hate Novell and Microsoft products as they're crap. However, > there's a business need for them - they're for idiots that don't want to > think and/or don't want to waste their time dealing with bullshit matters > everyday (yes, all Unices have them, and if you think not YOU need to get > a clue). The thing is that while there is a business need for Microsoft and Novell, and there could even be a business need for homogenous networks, these kinds of policies have no place in an education institution. If anything in an educational institution there is a better (albeit still flawed) argument that closed source operating systems should be banned from the network in favor of open source ones. This administrator needs to go find himself a small office somewhere where he can implement his policies. Someone's law office or an insurance agency would be much more amenable to these kinds of policies. In an educational institution he is instead completely out of touch with the needs of his clients. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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