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color=#0000ff size=2>I think for small businesses, an IT person/s are seen
as a business liability. i.e. they chew company profit without bring anything $$
into the company. In some cases, this may be right, but then, what happens when
their server crashes, or someones PC has issues. At least they can get is fixed
quicker and have less down time. It all adds up after a while these time
savings, so they SHOULD be seen as an asset, but as I am sure we all know, those
of us who work for companys who have an IT/in house dev. team, we are quite
often not seen that way......or is it my place of work ;-)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=625455109-04052006><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Jeremy</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz
[mailto:delphi-bounces@ns3.123.co.nz] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Paul A
Norman<BR><B>Sent:</B> 4 May 2006 21:22<BR><B>To:</B> NZ Borland Developers
Group - Delphi List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [DUG] In case you're interested (or
buy stuff)<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>>"<FONT color=#550055>Push the problem back to the client and let their
IT dept<BR>sort it out themselves.</FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV>Some one once rang me and asked "we have a message on screen that says -
ask the system administrator - who is that?</DIV>
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<DIV>I answered - its you!</DIV>
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<DIV>So many small NZ businesses have no IT dept, can be a major problem! Unless
someone wants to charge out for it - and such things are often too time
consuming.<BR> </DIV>
<DIV>Paul<BR>---------</DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 04/05/06, <B class=gmail_sendername>Kyley
Harris</B> <<A
href="mailto:kyley@harrissoftware.com">kyley@harrissoftware.com</A>>
wrote:</SPAN>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"><BR>>Integrate
with active directory and you never have to worry
about<BR>passwords,<BR>>etc. again. Push the problem back to the
client and let their IT dept <BR>sort<BR>>it out themselves.<BR><BR>Kind of
depends what you are writing.<BR>If you are storing thousands of clients and
passwords for a webbased<BR>system then this is obviously a no go ;)<BR><BR>I
do think that the safest mechanism is for the computer administrator <BR>to
somehow be integrated with the application to allow them to logonto<BR>the app
for adjusting forgotten passwords etc.<BR><BR>This all depends on the type of
system that you are writing. Most of<BR>Rohits clients are simply not going to
have Active Directories. And are <BR>similar to my fathers clients I would
guess in their ability to ask what<BR>the power button is for :-P I guess
having a backdoor password to a<BR>semi-secure app is better than having an
app with no security at
all.<BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Delphi
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