Re: Re: Locking down users

Thus quoth Richard.Corfield.Admin-XZoyATsUNX5Wk0Htik3J/[email protected] op Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 08:31:05AM +0100:
> 
> The quoted fear is that the user installation would break something - DLL
> Hell perhaps - and the user would be running to helpdesk for help. There's
> also tracking of licenses etc.  Fortunately, I have my own Linux box to
> do as I wish on, and thats how I reach and beat deadlines.

Where I worked my Windows PC was controlled by the Sysadmins. Microsoft Office
was mandatory.  Linux was forbidden, but I was lucky to get a Unix machine
I could fully control. (surely the company was not willing to make a backup
of my Windows box every week). So I needed the Sysadmin folks to install
software on the Windows box. 

> Corporate IT likes control. I was thinking about this new DRM system
> Microsoft are pushing very heavily for email. Unless it allows corporate
> IT to run their mail scanning software and anti-virus and to be able to
> read what their minions have said at a later date - its not going to be
> wanted. My company blocks PGP at the corporate mail gateway (though PGP
> followed by ROT13 gets through fine) - then appends 21 lines of legal
> junk to the effect that we really wish we could encrypt mail. 

'Techie' users try hard to defeat Corporate control. They wouldn't ask
for the help desk because they can manage their box better than the
company sysadmin. 

The so-called 'PC revolution' apparently happened because users wanted
a DOS box they could control themselves, rather than a mainframe login
under the supervision of the IT department. It would seem that revolution
has been reversed by now. 

Of course, this thread has little to do with Linux any more.

Kind regards,



Daniel von Asmuth


-- 
	If Gates had meant us to use Windows,
	He would have given us three hands.