As an aside, I'll agree, to a point, that this type of security largely does nothing more than provide a false sense of the very same. But if a "false sense" of security, as it were, is what it takes to make ordinary Americans travel by air, instead of cowering in their homes (as many did after 9/11), isn't it fulfilling its its goal? The goal may not be security, per se, but simply preventing the entire US air transportation industry from collapsing onto itself (issues of privacy and anonymous air travel aside, for the moment).
That is absolutely ludicrous. The percieved security, or lack thereof, of the air transport system is not a major reason for the depression of the air travel industry. The screwed up "fare schedule" for flights (examples: 1-way tickets costing MORE than round-trip, being able to get $150 round-trip tickets a month in advance, but if you want/need to fly 2 days from now it costs you $600 for the same effective flight, 'airport' and 'airline security' surcharges out the ASS... need I go on?) can be more of a depressive issue for people wanting or interested in travel than the percieved security of the airport in question. We don't need to strip-search elderly grandparents in the need to make certain that they aren't smuggling box cutters for Allah.
Admittedly, this is a longshot without any research backing it up (yet) but how about setting up Samba on the NIS server, or something similar, and using it like an NT domain controller? Wouldn't Samba use the NIS databases to authenticate the users?
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As an aside, I'll agree, to a point, that this type of security largely does nothing more than provide a false sense of the very same. But if a "false sense" of security, as it were, is what it takes to make ordinary Americans travel by air, instead of cowering in their homes (as many did after 9/11), isn't it fulfilling its its goal? The goal may not be security, per se, but simply preventing the entire US air transportation industry from collapsing onto itself (issues of privacy and anonymous air travel aside, for the moment).
That is absolutely ludicrous. The percieved security, or lack thereof, of the air transport system is not a major reason for the depression of the air travel industry. The screwed up "fare schedule" for flights (examples: 1-way tickets costing MORE than round-trip, being able to get $150 round-trip tickets a month in advance, but if you want/need to fly 2 days from now it costs you $600 for the same effective flight, 'airport' and 'airline security' surcharges out the ASS... need I go on?) can be more of a depressive issue for people wanting or interested in travel than the percieved security of the airport in question. We don't need to strip-search elderly grandparents in the need to make certain that they aren't smuggling box cutters for Allah.
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Thanks for the heads up. We'll bang on that.
Admittedly, this is a longshot without any research backing it up (yet) but how about setting up Samba on the NIS server, or something similar, and using it like an NT domain controller? Wouldn't Samba use the NIS databases to authenticate the users?