Re: Sweet Success

From: Rick Warner (rwarner_at_inviosoftware.com)
Date: 08/21/03

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Date: 21 Aug 2003 10:21:12 -0700

    On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 08:19, tomh@simas.com wrote:

    > From an admin point
    > of view, I want a box out there that my users can't change. When they
    > make a change and it screws up the computer, it costs my company money for
    > me to fix it (whether I fix it myself, or hire someone else to do it for
    > me). Some would fire the user, but guess what - it costs money to replace
    > them, too.(2)
    >

    If they have console access, and there is any media access, there is no
    way to prevent them from making changes. True of any OS. Someone will
    change something at some time. Plan on it.

    - rick 

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