On 2005-11-29 14:59:52 +0000, Kendrick wrote: > > Heres an example for you. you are the administrator of a medium sized > business with 7 servers and 150 desktops. the board has dictated that > there must be X: security measures implimented in all desktops and Y: > security measures in the servers. After searching no commercial distro > does it in a acceptible manner. to build those systems by standard lfs > would be near a impossible task for the time allowed by your job. all 7 > servers are different hardware/software, 20 desktops have a specific > hardware/software combo for securly scanning/encoding client records, > 10 for accounting have a specific hardware dongle for security issues. > etc... that right there would be 10 different profiles not to mention > department specific software/hardware setups. once the company gets the > inital install done it would be quite likely that yes they would image > new systems from a prebuilt image.. but that image must be maintained > and the servers would need to be maintained. > that is where this idea realy shines. you are thinking from the home > install point only.
I can still build this out of off-the-shelf components, in many different ways. Here's one way: I can set up accounts on each machine that will execute any script e-mailed to them that have been digitally signed by one of the sysadmins. I set the script to exit one any error, and the last line e-mails me back that it worked. I can subscribe all the accounting machines to to accounting mailing list. I can subscribe all the retinal scanning machines to the retinal scanner mailing list. I can see the advantage of automating network installs. I cannot see the advantage of creating yet another network authentication protocol. Richard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
