I have to agree with and acknowledge the other replies. To solve a mgmt issue with a technical solution doesn't always fly.

Given that the Domain Admin could reset the user's password and log onto the account, you may need to break away from his area of control - AD share technology. You may have to set up a SSL webdav server, sftp, nfs share, etc only the power user can have r/w access to.

One of the easiest solutions would be webdav, using LAMP stack on an SELinux enabled host. * Windows has built-in webdav mounting * The webserver could use AD/LDAP auth'ing or other ACL for just r/o access, while giving rights in a /etc/httpd/conf.d/custom-webdav.conf to a specific user name. - NOTE: if you use MS's AD/LDAP there's some funny business surrounding it. read up on it.

You could set up a Windows Host with standard file sharing or the webdav setup that's not managed by the AD Domain. Then you could use a Windows Filesharing, IIS or XAMPP solution.

No matter what poison pill you choose, you're still going to have the issue of backups, access to those backups, etc. :-)

Later, M. --- Mark A. Stinson

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1. Interesting challenge (for me at least) (Haworth, Michael A.)

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Message: 1 Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:16:40 -0600 From: "Haworth, Michael A." Michael_Haworth@pas-technologies.com To: "KCLUG (E-mail)" kclug@kclug.org Subject: Interesting challenge (for me at least) Message-ID:        0446F51E8649E844BD140D357024A9A30B1E502842@SAL9000.PASTECH.PRV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

This is most likely pretty elementary, but I wanted to bounce it off of some people that know more than me and can point out any flaws in my very weary logic before I do a concept presentation to my bosses:

I have a folder that has to be available on the network (currently Windows with AD), but must be protected from unauthorized access (including access by Domain Admins). Here is what I think a valid solution could be:

1. Build up a CentOS box.

2. Install and configure SAMBA to allow for sharing to windows computers.

3. Create a SAMBA share for the required folder (and sort out auto-mount in case of a reboot).

4. create two accounts - one to allow for Read/Write access to the shared folder and one to allow for Read-only access

5. Issue the account credentials to the manager of the folder (in this case, out Export Compliance Officer) and then allow it to be that persons problem to manage who knows the credentials.

I see this as a low stress, low cost, quick, and above all - easy - way to deal with a potential compliance issue. The reason that we can not simply use Active Directory to restrict access is that one of our Domain Admins is a foreign national - if we were to place a 'deny access' on the folder, he could remove it if he wished - and getting rid of AD or Windows is not an option ATM, but it is still in process.

Any help from the list is greatly appreciated, Michael Haworthmailto:michael_haworth@pas-technologies.com Enterprise Systems Support Manager PAS Technologies Inc. D: (816) 556-5157 M: (816) 585-1033 F: (816) 556-5189

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