On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 13:56 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 01:34:36PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> I was, in fact, arguing for remote admin capabilities. Did you read my
> mail at all?
The "futuristic networked LDAP backend" you mention presumes that you've
got
the luxury of setting up said backend in your environment and making all
your systems work with it. In the ideal world, where the system
analyst/admin gets dropped into a problem with a clean slate and a huge
budget, that'd sounds great.
We've got all the essential bits as free software already (Fedora
Directory Server, Sabayon [1], gconf, g-p-m bits). Someone just needs to
start wiring these components together.
(Of course it's going to be hard and it will surely involve fixing many
of the interdependent components. The wins are, potentially, huge for
system administrators administering lots of desktops.. and.. with
reusing GNOME policy daemons system-wide as I'm proposing, also servers.
Certainly a worth-while effort I think.)
Making it work in an existing heterogeneous
enviroment where you've got working systems already deployed is different.
I think that point is well-understood but the Fedora Project (as I see
it at least) is also about moving our OS forward.
David
[1] :
http://www.gnome.org/projects/sabayon/