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OLC - charging for local access
Just found this out, and I'm raging about it: Got off the phone moments ago with Rahul from Egnyte Support. We're a small company - about 35 people local and about 10-15 more world-wide. We have a ...
Hi Johnny -
I'm aware that Power Users != Admins. However, it seemed like Rahul was suggesting to me that I could make our users Domain admins as that level of user CAN access the NAS and make changes to the files. This is, for hopefully obvious reasons, a completely ludicrous idea.
The suggestion that we create a 'generic' Power User account is a work-around of course, but for the long-term not at all a viable one. Especially if security is a concern (which it really should always be.) I feel like this is IT Management 101: don't make group login's with blanket security permissions.
What Egnyte REALLY should be doing is allowing Standard Users (or perhaps even making a special tier) the rights to access the NAS if they are local. They don't need any other special remote access rights, and if they do - well, then paying to turn them into a Power User is justifiable.
Take our company, for example. We've got 10-15 people right now who would need to be Power Users - they're located around the world. They collaborate on projects with approximately 30 people who work within the office, across all 4 of our company groups. For simplicity's sake, lets say those 30 people ONLY access the NAS device - they will not need any remote access (while this may not be strictly true, it works from the standpoint that if we want them to have remote access, we'll gladly turn them into remote users and therefore pay for it.) Right now, paying for those 15 people to be Power Users is justifiable. Paying for 45 people to be Power Users will cost us, and we'd not really reap any benefit. There'd be absolutely NO value added from those 30 accounts - but it would cost us at LEAST an additional $150 a month ($1800 a year), really for no reason.
I'm aware that Power Users != Admins. However, it seemed like Rahul was suggesting to me that I could make our users Domain admins as that level of user CAN access the NAS and make changes to the files. This is, for hopefully obvious reasons, a completely ludicrous idea.
The suggestion that we create a 'generic' Power User account is a work-around of course, but for the long-term not at all a viable one. Especially if security is a concern (which it really should always be.) I feel like this is IT Management 101: don't make group login's with blanket security permissions.
What Egnyte REALLY should be doing is allowing Standard Users (or perhaps even making a special tier) the rights to access the NAS if they are local. They don't need any other special remote access rights, and if they do - well, then paying to turn them into a Power User is justifiable.
Take our company, for example. We've got 10-15 people right now who would need to be Power Users - they're located around the world. They collaborate on projects with approximately 30 people who work within the office, across all 4 of our company groups. For simplicity's sake, lets say those 30 people ONLY access the NAS device - they will not need any remote access (while this may not be strictly true, it works from the standpoint that if we want them to have remote access, we'll gladly turn them into remote users and therefore pay for it.) Right now, paying for those 15 people to be Power Users is justifiable. Paying for 45 people to be Power Users will cost us, and we'd not really reap any benefit. There'd be absolutely NO value added from those 30 accounts - but it would cost us at LEAST an additional $150 a month ($1800 a year), really for no reason.
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