[TriLUG] ldap authentication from Active directory or NTDS

[Magnus Hedemark]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Jim Ray wrote:

> True confessions.  I'd like to catch you spewing winmail.dat one day :-)

Won't happen;  my Exchange server is properly configured.

Besides, I'm sending this from pine.

I said our shop is "primarily" windows, not "entirely".  We have a growing 
contingent of Linux systems, but 70%+ of our systems do run Windows.  I 
was hired primarily to handle "everything else" but still spend about half 
my time fixing Windows stuff because the Linux systems generally work 
well.

One caveat on that last statement;  we're experimenting with a change in 
policy that gives users local root access to their Linux workstations.  I 
can't say that it is a success or failure.  But there is a big shift in 
the kind of problems I'm dealing with.  My help desk requests used to be 
something like "I need to have package foo installed".  Now users can do 
that themselves.  Instead I'm dealing with problems now where users screw 
up their /etc/X11/XF86Config to something that flat out won't display, or 
otherwise render their systems unusable in the quest to make games work or 
play MP3's.  Too early to say whether I'm spending more time on these 
issues or what.  But I'm really finding "clean up after stupid users" work 
to be less enjoyable than things like refining my yum groups to 
automagically deploy software to all my users.