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This article is depressingly bad. Even a sysadmin runs their computer as root or sudo 2% of the time and should not run non-SOP software on a work computer...
by mbubb 17y ago
This article is depressingly bad.
Even a sysadmin runs their computer as root or sudo 2% of the time and should not run non-SOP software on a work computer...
How could you manage giving regular users the ability to install while maintaining a secure environment?
On our networks website restrictions are for bandwidth reasons not for 'net-nannying' reasons. And occasionally be have to adjust for silly dansguardian mis-flags...
But how can you seriously argue what this guy is putting forth?
I have played with the idea of giving users a VirtualBox install of Win XP that they can trash to their heart's content while having a more secure Linux desktop for the work applications (Firefox/ Thunderbird/ OpenOffice). But I am not convinced that is really secure. But that is more the way to go with something like this.
- mattmcknight 17y ago"How could you manage giving regular users the ability to install while maintaining a secure environment?" Don't put your important data on the desktop. An intranet app over VPN is definitely safer than walking around with the company data on a laptop. I like your idea of giving people an virtual machine to worth with. I use virtual machines to do a lot of real work (as a contractor) where the corporate IT policies don't let you do work.