On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 11:11:58PM -0500, Marty wrote: > > In contrast, a transition from Debian (or more realistically, from Unix) to > windows results in a massive increase in job security, due the immediate > need for more support staff. > It is also a morale killer. I once spoke with a senior sysadmin at a government agency in New Mexico. They had a sweet cross-platform authentication setup for Windows, Linux and Unix clients using LDAP and Samba on a Red Hat server. Then they got a new CIO who was convinced that MS stuff was better. He declared by fiat that they would be moving over to Active Directory. Of course, no new admins were hired. They did have some Windows savvy people since they run Exchange and some other things. But Active Directory is another beast entirely. Anyhow, with no new admins and an executive decree that they move to an authentication that was orders of magnitude more complex than what they had previously (authenticating Windows to Samba is much easier than authenticating Linux and Unix to Active Directory, I am told), they were hurting real bad. Of course, their jobs were much more secure, but I'm sure they could have done without it. > > I work around windows sysadmins and hear all of their daily problems (but > job security will never be one of them). > I find it funny when I can easily script common tasks and the Windows admins must sit there and repeatedly click to do something as simple as setup a new user. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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