On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 20:25 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
On Monday 01 September 2008 11:16, Silent Ph03nix wrote:
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Roger Oberholtzer
wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 09:54 -0500, Silent Ph03nix wrote:
I will have to see if they are running 2000 or 2003. I want to validate Linux user logins via the AD server. It is the Linux box itself that I want the users to have access to with their AD passwords, not other resources on the network. I cannot track their AD passwords manually, and they are changing all the time. Currently, they have different user/password on the Linux box than on the AD box. I am trying to get away from that.
Understood. In that case you're most likely going to have to get your IT department involved. We tend to get snippy when people try to do things on our network without getting us involved. ;-)
Ph03nix
Where I worked (I am retired) the IT department would have come completely unglued if anyone on the net tried to install Linux. Perhaps if one of the programmers could have made a case for it, but otherwise. . . .
We were, originally, a small company that made a measurement system, based first on OS/9, then Unix (HP-UX and then SCO UnixWare), Caldera Linux, and now openSUSE Linux.. We were never a Windows or DOS shop. There was a bit of a pull to OS/2, but that passed quickly. We were then bought by a company that is today over 8200 employees. Out little group of 10 or so are the only ones not using Windows (or, the 'Standard PC', as the IT department call their canned install of Windows that is used company-wide). Well, almost company wide :) One silly thing is that as our company has a Novell site license, the IT guys have access to SUSE. They have tried it. No complaints. But it does not run Outlook and Office. That could have been sorted, if there had been a bit of initiative. The real problem is all the engineering software that is used. Our company is mainly engineering and design consultants in many areas. They exchange design data with many outside sources. So, they need to run the same software. If you were doing a design of a bridge, or a tunnel, or a part of a North Sea oil platform, would you want to risk running your software in a simulator (or even a virtual machine) that was not tested by the software maker? Would you trust importing data from one program to another? It does not take many mistakes for a company to loose their reputation. So, until engineering software is properly and officially ported to Linux, there is no chance a company like ours will convert. The risks are seen as too great. And I think they are. But our little division had Unix/Linux from the start. We don't want to convert to Windows for the same reason the Windows guys do not want to convert to Linux. The SoftWar rages on. -- Roger Oberholtzer OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST Ramböll Sverige AB Kapellgränd 7 P.O. Box 4205 SE-102 65 Stockholm, Sweden Office: Int +46 8-615 60 20 Mobile: Int +46 70-815 1696 And remember: It is RSofT and there is always something under construction. It is like talking about large city with all constructions finished. Not impossible, but very unlikely. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org