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Re: Re: Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for good security


From: Michael Gale <michaelgale () bluesuperman com>
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2003 16:48:57 -0700



 Windows 2003 - HAAHHAHAAH

Ok - the company I work for now - hired me and fired the pervious network admin.

Why do you ask -- because they where running Win2k with NO problems at all. The previous network admin decided to move 
everything to Win2k3. 

Since then the following problems have occured:

lost file permissions
- directories and files would just loose there security permissions, so no one could access the file at. The admin 
could not restore the permissions, the only way to fix the issue was to make the admin the owner of the file or dir and 
then give access rights to the user.

inherited permissions would just stop working and reapplying - HAHAHH made no difference.

Network logins -- would just stop working, the users passwords would not longer work. Resetting them would sometimes 
solve the issue. 

So -- now I get to move everything back to Win2k.


Now this really sucks since I usually only do Unix / Linux system administration. 

Michael.

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 10:48:00 -0600
Paul Schmehl <pauls () utdallas edu> wrote:

--On Friday, October 31, 2003 10:16 PM -0800 "Charles E. Hill" 
<chill () herber-hill com> wrote:

Gates spoke as a politician.  His comments were very narrowly tailored.

Read them close.  He spoke almost exclusively of Win2003 Server -- which
has  very minimal deployment and is brand new.  I don't know anyone who
has  actually installed Win2k3, yet.

Well, now you do.  We rolled out Win2k3 AD a month ago.  We have a number 
of Win2k3 servers.

Paul Schmehl (pauls () utdallas edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu

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