On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 12:16:03AM +0100, Roland Käser wrote:
Yeah, the idea of using a homegeneous user interface is a good one.
Please rememeber the linuxconf tool on earlier redhat version. But is
really good tool was removed from the distribution. But why?
Maintainability mostly. There are other problems with a single program
(as opposed to a single user interface) that it had too. There are lots
of ways of hitting many of Linuxconf's goals (eg HTML and tools for
command/gui mode that just wrap web widgets and drive them into the
same backend)
It is not ment that with an LDAP Server all the users needs to know
about LDIF-files, schema files etc. The goal behind it should be that
the users doesn't needs to know all about that. They should can
administrate the system as it was bevore.
Mechanism and goal are seperable. So lets imagine I'm a random end user
or admin who doesn't know (or care) about stuff like LDAP. Can you concisely
describe why I want the things you see it giving - without reference to the
technology at all.