On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 22:43, Nicki Messerschmidt wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 6 May 2004, Paul Gienger wrote: > > Nicki Messerschmidt, Linksystem Muenchen GmbH wrote: > >>is it really necessary to add every user to the administrators group to > >>allow them to update their windows boxes? I really can't believe this... > > Is it necessary to give root access to install system wide packages in > > UNIX? There is really no difference, aside from this being a new > > concept to long time windows users. Installing updates requires enough > > permissions to modify/delete critical system files, and you don't want > > Joe Schmoe doing that. > No, but I thought that there might be a service running in the system > context to automate this whole procedure... And this service should work > without a sus (security update server)...
SUS works surprisingly well, but I think you can just set a policy for the machines to update themselves automatically from the master site if you wish. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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