Noob Centos Admin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: >> That makes it somewhat harder to use multiple machines since you end up >> having to create and maintain passwords on each. > > True, but the usual work behaviour here means that seldom happen. Even > if they do need to work on somebody else's machine, most customers > simply used the permissions of whoever it is. > > I've not quite succeeded in convincing any of them that it's a bad > idea to let everybody else in the department know your password for > "convenience". This becomes much easier when you have appropriate shared space on the server(s) with group access permissions so there is never any need to impersonate someone else. >> If you have to ask things like that, I'd recommend looking at the free >> SME server distribution. It mostly uses Centos packages, but is a >> 'windows server' appliance that will do everything you are likely to >> need and more (including acting as a domain controller) with all >> administration through simple web forms. > > Thanks for the suggestion, I'll take a look at it but chances are I > won't actually get to try it until at least a couple of months later > either with a new server or an existing. No point ruffling feathers > after just fixing what was broken! :D You can always fire one up under vmware or a test box to see how it works. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com