Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Both of us can produce supporting/refuting evidence for our views, neither will be swayed by it. And so we move on....
I say I have to respectfully disagree with your opinion. Bush is by far not the worst president this country has ever had, if it wasn't for the worst president this country has ever had, ignoring world politics for 8 long years, we wouldn't be in this mess! If Bill Clinton had given up on the worthless, powerless UN 10 years ago and done something about Iraq, we wouldn't be here now! George Bush is simply doing what the UN has proven time and time again what it can't do, something!
What everyone seems to forget is that Iraq lost the first war, and one of the conditions, imposed by the the UN, was that Iraq was to dispose of their WMD's. The US is not under such conditions, therefore we do not have to give up any of our WMD's (or any other weapons). North Korea is another issue, with has it's own set of political obstacles (China), but I'm sure that once Iraq is out of the way, focus will be put back on them. Our goal is to enforce the conditions, set forth by the UN, which the UN seems totally unable to enforce, for 12+ years! But of course, the totally worthless existance of the UN is another topic entirely....
5. My claim was that my good finances were my issue, as it is private, confidential information, and my prospective employer was not a credit agency or licensed for any sort of financial business. Requiring non-employment-related, legally-confidential information is unlawful, even in most at-will employment states. Gotta love that little thing called "right to privacy"!
Your credit report is private and no person or company can look at it without your permission, this is your "right to privacy". Any company has the right to ask you to sign away those rights, so that they can see your credit report. You have the right to deny, and they in turn have the right to deny you employment (or a loan/credit card)!
The above tatic may work, since many companies have poor HR departments, but in today's market I doubt it. My wife, who is an HR manager, and specilizes in employment and employment law, would would have told you to take a hike, because their is no legal ground for you to stand on. Basically in the US private companies have enormous leeway in hiring and firing (outside of union environments).
Another alternative to AD4Unix (if you don't mind giving MS a little extra money;) is to purchase Microsoft's Service's for Unix (~$120), which gives you the AD schema extensions and adds the support into the AD user admin screens. AD4Unix is a great product, but I got a little nervous about modifing the AD schema and having some future SP come along and blow it away. At least this way, hopefully, future SP's will see SFU installed and leave it alone.;) Plus you get some neat extra's like an NFS server for W2K and an NIS server (which you won't need, if you integrate with AD).
This is actually quite easy, all of my Solaris and Linux machines autheticate to AD, just fine. Never tried with OS X, but it sounds like it might be a bit easier, since Apple has a somewhat vested interest in making it work.
I use the pam_ldap and nss_ldap modules from padl.com.
Follow the newsgroup thread here:
http://www.netsys.com/nssldap/2002/02/msg00031.htm l
and the "cookbook" here:
http://jaxen.ratisle.net/~jj/nss_ldap-AD_Integrati on_how-to.html
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Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Both of us can produce supporting/refuting evidence for our views, neither will be swayed by it. And so we move on....
I say I have to respectfully disagree with your opinion. Bush is by far not the worst president this country has ever had, if it wasn't for the worst president this country has ever had, ignoring world politics for 8 long years, we wouldn't be in this mess! If Bill Clinton had given up on the worthless, powerless UN 10 years ago and done something about Iraq, we wouldn't be here now! George Bush is simply doing what the UN has proven time and time again what it can't do, something!
What everyone seems to forget is that Iraq lost the first war, and one of the conditions, imposed by the the UN, was that Iraq was to dispose of their WMD's. The US is not under such conditions, therefore we do not have to give up any of our WMD's (or any other weapons). North Korea is another issue, with has it's own set of political obstacles (China), but I'm sure that once Iraq is out of the way, focus will be put back on them. Our goal is to enforce the conditions, set forth by the UN, which the UN seems totally unable to enforce, for 12+ years! But of course, the totally worthless existance of the UN is another topic entirely....
5. My claim was that my good finances were my issue, as it is private, confidential information, and my prospective employer was not a credit agency or licensed for any sort of financial business. Requiring non-employment-related, legally-confidential information is unlawful, even in most at-will employment states. Gotta love that little thing called "right to privacy"! Your credit report is private and no person or company can look at it without your permission, this is your "right to privacy". Any company has the right to ask you to sign away those rights, so that they can see your credit report. You have the right to deny, and they in turn have the right to deny you employment (or a loan/credit card)!
The above tatic may work, since many companies have poor HR departments, but in today's market I doubt it. My wife, who is an HR manager, and specilizes in employment and employment law, would would have told you to take a hike, because their is no legal ground for you to stand on. Basically in the US private companies have enormous leeway in hiring and firing (outside of union environments).
Another alternative to AD4Unix (if you don't mind giving MS a little extra money ;) is to purchase Microsoft's Service's for Unix (~$120), which gives you the AD schema extensions and adds the support into the AD user admin screens. AD4Unix is a great product, but I got a little nervous about modifing the AD schema and having some future SP come along and blow it away. At least this way, hopefully, future SP's will see SFU installed and leave it alone. ;) Plus you get some neat extra's like an NFS server for W2K and an NIS server (which you won't need, if you integrate with AD).
The pam_ldap/nss_ldap route has a couple of advantages over pam_smb, IMO:
No "local" accounts on the *nix* boxes (although it sounds like they might have that limitation fixed, haven't looked at it for a while).
And you can change the users passwords from the *nix* side, as long as you configure SSL/TLS support.
This is actually quite easy, all of my Solaris and Linux machines autheticate to AD, just fine. Never tried with OS X, but it sounds like it might be a bit easier, since Apple has a somewhat vested interest in making it work. I use the pam_ldap and nss_ldap modules from padl.com. Follow the newsgroup thread here: http://www.netsys.com/nssldap/2002/02/msg00031.htm l
and the "cookbook" here:
http://jaxen.ratisle.net/~jj/nss_ldap-AD_Integrati on_how-to.html