Re: Rights

[Dereck Martin <dmartin () mixxerinc com>]

At my company I do not grant admin or power user status at all. The most I will 
do in certian situations is great special permission to modify files within an 
application folder. (somtimes applications do not place nice with restricted 
users and require writing to a application folder).  However, i do not grant 
group access instead it is on a user basis.  Anything else, the user will have 
to suffer.  Users must know that the computers are company/school property and 
we have the right to restrict access as much as we want regardless of their 
"needs".  We secure the systems for the their protection and to keep ourselves 
sane from those who do not pay any attention what so ever on what they click.

Dereck Martin
Desktop Support

www.mixxer.com
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I Freecycle wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm wondering how others deal with allowing users rights on work computers.
>
> At our school, users aren't normally given Administrator or Power User
> rights unless it's absolutely necessary.  Occasionally we
> encounter employees and students that don't understand how easily a
> system can be messed up and the security issues involved nor why we
> feel it's necessary to operate like this.
>
>
> I would like to know what others do, and what policies they have in
> place to address these issues.
>
> Thanks,
>
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