VanLUG Email Archive
Jonathan Walther (krooger@debian.org)
Thu, 6 May 1999 03:51:12 -0700 (PDT)
Make linux the primary domain controller, but lie to the dumb administration
and tell them its secondary. These school types believe what they hear
because they know nothing. Just make things work, tell them what they want
to hear, and they won't bitch at you. And they'll never find out, and if
they do, they won't really care, because things "work", and as soon as they
try to "fix" it, it'll break, and they'll either spend thousands and
thousands of dollars for outside consultants, or they'll just leave it
broken, but secretly be glad when you "accidentally" put things back the way
they were before. That is, if you are even still in school :>
Word: never tell "management" the details of what you have to do, or they'll
stick their oar in and try to micromanage. Tell them things in such a way
that, in the course of exercising their authority, they order you to do one
of two things, either of which are suitable. Give em simple no brainers to
decide on that don't really mean anything, but sound flashy and technical.
Jonathan
On Wed, 5 May 1999, Chris Murray wrote:
> I have a mail server here at my school that has approx 1400 email accounts
> on it. And we have migrated our network over to using windows NT Terminal
> Server and now have to create seperate accounts for each student so that
> they can access resources on the domain and the terminal server. (For
> those of you not familiar with windowsNT terminal server its microsofts
> version of Citrix). The question: is there any way to just use one set of
> accounts for access to both, ie: nt domain users have mail accounts on
> Linux box. I know that it can be done if I make the Linux machine the
> Primary Domain Controler; however, the school dos not want me to do that.
> If anybody knows how to or knows if it can be done please let me know.
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