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Re: From an admin's perspective...

> Bad network admins! Handing out elevated
> privledges to get things to work is almost
> never needed. I've run into many applications
> that had trouble running wihtout admin rights,
> but in 99.9% of the cases I was able to get
> them to work, usually via simple file
> permission changes.

I know, but I'm not a Novell Admin so it's out of my hands. Besides, I've got enough to do providing desktop support for 350 people (with one other person helping me about half the time) as well as building and deploying all new PCs and working on other projects. Not that I mind that but I could do without people making it harder than it needs to be.

All I can do is document the damage and go to our boss with it and convince him that giving people Admin privs is a bad idea, no matter how much they whine that they "need" it.

> Anyhow, we do get spyware on users' machines,
> but with power users rights, only the benign
> stuff that doesn't do much harm will work. The
> really *nasty* stuff only works with admin
> rights.

I suspected that but that's good to hear for sure. Time to convince my boss to rethink our desktop privileges policy.

> As for using Zenworks, I take it you're
> running Novell? If you have Win2k domain you
> can shut off these things with AD policies.

Yup, Novell for file/print/directory services. No AD or Windows domains; all PCs are in a workgroup, so I'm at the mercy of our Novell Admins when it comes to workstation policies. Apparently ZENworks can block ActiveX and/or Java, etc. Our Admins already implemented it so we'll see if the reports of infections go away.

Posted by: crm_z   Posted on: 06/01/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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