Le lun 06/01/2003 à 18:23, Buchan Milne a écrit : > First I must just say that over the holidays I read (or skimmed) most of > the book "Mastering Windows 2000", and learnt quite a bit, mostly that > Windows 2000's support for Active Directory makes quite a few important > features available, such as automatic software installation (based on > membership of an LDAP OU and possible of a group also) for users (ie log > in, you should have visio2002, and it is installed, someone else logs in > who shouldn't have it, and it is removed) and for machines (on next user > login, machines will install any new software assigned to their OU) and > many other features (mostly collectively called Group Policy Objects). > > (Note that in AD, all computers joined to a domain have an account, with > samba domain controllers this is also usually the case, except with the > new optional nua - No User Account - sam backends in samba3). > > I was wondering if there were some applications that would apply to > Mandrake. Some examples: > > 1)urpmi support for ldap, so that on every boot (and via cron?) machines > would check which software they: > a)Must have > b)should not have
This is the generic problem of distributed urpmi but with a lesser extend. It means if almost everyone login at the same time, there will be a lot of traffic downloading files ? This could be another tools (of urpmi suite) allowing such behaviour, for me it looks like better in that way. But I think adding or removing a software is very hard for the user, it removes a lot of freedom ? > and automatically install/remove the software. This > 2)urpmi support for configuring urpmi sources in ldap > See above, assume you have a new application you want to roll out to all > desktops, create a new urpmi source which as the app, add the package to > list of required packages for the OU containing the machines, and go home. > (yes, there is overlap with urpmi --parallel). Of course it overlaps, see above. It remove all the benefit of --parallel on bandwith. > 3)msec support for ldap, so that security policies can be implemented > per OU (including inheritance etc). Adding this to urpmi will imply adding this to msec as well ? And sorry for answering lately, François.
