Re: Flexbeta Review : setting up SLES as a PDC without touching CLI

On Monday 28 March 2005 22:22, FACORAT Fabrice wrote:
> http://www.flexbeta.net/main/printarticle.php?id=3D88
>
> This review show how to setup SLES as a Primary Domain controler
> without using CLI.
> It shows how to setup OpenLDAP, SAMBA, dynamic DNS server, DHCP
> server ( which will update DNS records ). It also show how to manage
> user accounts and profile.
>
> Contrary to mdk wizards which just allow to install the different
> part very basically, Suse ones provides more advanced feature which
> allow to combine them.
>
> Now a really winner solution would be to have a wizard that do all of
> this automatically in 5 screens ( welcome & caution, domain settings
> [ DNS domaine name, admin user and password ], security settings [
> key generation ], installation & configuration, summary ).

This is the easy part :
http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/WritingWizard

If mandrakesoft doesn't want to do it, anybody can add it and fork the=20
distro.

All is left is too do some rebranding, and i have explained the basis in=20
another mail on cooker, and if i found the time, I may add a spec ( or=20
add a rebranding wizard, where you give the picture used everywhere,=20
and it create a rpm ready to be dropped on repository ).

> Now if you provide LDAP support to userdrake and a plugin based=20
> architecture to add dynamically SAMBA specific accounts settings
> support. You have clearly a winner especially for SOHO market.

userdrake is not in perl, I fear this is more tricky to code.

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Micha=EBl Scherer

On the importance to respond to proposal email :
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.bootstrap/1127