Hi, On Friday 18 January 2008 11:16, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > There are also some services Debian Edu uses and LinEx doesn't need > > them (samba as an example) and the opposite (puppet[3] as an > > example). > Moving to puppet might be an alternative for Debian Edu. The cfengine > plans never crystalized, and puppet might be a easier option for > day-to-day maintainence.
Henning resumed the work on FAI yesterday, so now we have two options: fai and
puppet. I guess this is a feature ;-)
> Another idea I have is to use machine netgroups more actively. Say,
> to enable exam mode on a machine it is inserted into the exam-hosts
> netgroup and rebooted (or perhaps it dynamically take effect), and
> then the machine is locked down for exams. There is a lot we can do
> with grouping of machines in netgroups that would make administration
> easier. At the moment it is only used for NFS access, but that is
> just the start.
That would rock.
regards,
Holger
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