Le mer 01/10/2003 à 18:22, Owen Taylor a écrit :
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 11:43, Dax Kelson wrote:
The nirvana Linux network setup includes the following:
- LDAP directory
- Kerberos Authentication
- Autofs for home directories
- Kerberized NFSv4
Thought question ... most of the above is present currently but takes a real expert to get going.
What needs to be done to make it possible so that, given say, a network of 50 workstations, someone who has never done it before could get such a network going in a day?
And I'd even add samba domain controller that uses the krb5+ldap setup as user database. Most small networks include at least a few legacy computers.
This can be done and I even did a bastardised setup with a 7.3 server, but I can confirm it's a major PITA and most small businesses (which would kill for a setup) can not afford a software engineer to set it up.
Biggers edus/corps will use custom setups anyway and single computer networks have no need of this, but any small 2-50 computer network would benefit from it.
Really given how samba have matured a prebuild ldap+krb+nfs+samba combo should be possible nowadays.
[ and I for one do not care about the gui stuff, if it's yet another wizard people have to work around I do not need it, however having the default config files working out of the box instead of having to master 4-5 howtows before the first login would be great ]
Cheers,