Hello again,
Is there a good location in the cfengine directory tree or somewhere
else to put flag files? I looking to set up two sets of flags, permanent
and semi-permanent. Permanent flags would be ones that specify which
department a machine is in. Semi-permanent flags would be tidy'ed after
some time.
The background of this is that our college-level work with cfengine has
caught the attention of campus IT as a possibly solution to manage our
Mac's which currently aren't managed. The campus uses Novell Zenworks
for windows management. One feature of Zenworks is that when a user logs
in, applications that are associated with that user are immediately
pushed out. We have a few roaming users who can benefit from this and
Campus IT would be more amenable if I can prove that this is possible.
I would prefer that all application be local and installed everywhere,
but some licenses forbid this and we just have too many applications and
we don't have a network storage share in place for all of the Mac's.
I was thinking that in the system login script, we check the username
against a list of usernames and associated applications. If a user is
associated with an application, then the correct semi-permanent flag
file would be touched. Cfengine would then install the application based
on the existence of the flag file and tidy the semi-permanent flag
files. We could even remove the application if the flag files doesn't
exist. This would handle our roaming users. The only catches I see are
as follows:
1. how to inform/lock out the user while the application is being pushed
out.
2. how to do it immediately upon login.
Thanks,
Jason
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