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

Le Lundi 28 Mars 2005 23:19, Michael Scherer a =E9crit=A0:
> 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
> distro.
>
> All is left is too do some rebranding, and i have explained the basis in
> another mail on cooker, and if i found the time, I may add a spec ( or
> add a rebranding wizard, where you give the picture used everywhere,
> and it create a rpm ready to be dropped on repository ).

Unless libconf have support that it will be very hard to do this ...
On top of that we can see that mdk wizard are too simple/basic




> > Now if you provide LDAP support to userdrake and a plugin based
> > 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.

last time I checked, it was in perl

[root@info1 ~]# file /usr/sbin/userdrake
/usr/sbin/userdrake: perl script text executable

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