Our reliance to directory services
June 28, 2004You never realize quite how ubiquitous directory services have become until they fail. We use Microsoft Active Directory at work, all of our production tools use it for login password protection. The problem is that right now we are apparently experiencing some kind of outage on the VPN between our Cambridge and SF offices.
Meaning our tools server running in Cambridge is unable to authenticate logins because the active directory is in SF. Meaning I haven’t been able to log into the production tool all day, so I haven’t been able to push anything along in the workflow. I can edit new manuscripts on my local hard drive, but I can’t push live any of the manuscripts I’ve already loaded into the production tool.
Sometimes I long for the good old days, when login authentication was strictly local–either you had an account on that machine, or you didn’t. No remote directory service crap.
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