On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Nathan Vidican wrote: > If one were to standardize on a specific window manager/desktop environment, > one could accomplish much of the same effect as 'windows domain control', > including some control over the desktop environment/settings. Given the > following example for kde: > > Typical Linux Desktop: > /home mounted via NFS > - user homedirs exist in NFS share > > /home/kde - either simlink'd or configured at compile time to the equivelent > of /usr/local/share/kde, (kde 'default'/'master' settings)
Kiosk would be better for this. > Users, groups, passwords, MTA aliases, etc.. stored in LDAP, accessed using > pam_ldap & nss_ldap combined. > > Poof! - You've got yourself a 'linux domain controller', assuming the > end-user > never has root access, you could with a little work really tweak what they > can and cannot access using a given window manager/desktop environment by > write-protecting config files, etc. Well, assuming KDE ... you may also be able to have KDE settings in LDAP: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101716 Regards, Buchan -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
