Joachim Schrod wrote:
John Andersen wrote:
On Monday 26 February 2007, Hans van der Merwe wrote:
This will probably spark some debates, but can someone point me to some
information that I can use to successfully challenge out IT department
concerning moving some Windows driven services to Linux (file, print
and
email/collaboration).
An anti-FUD cheat-sheet if you like.
The only part of that debate you can't easily win is the much vaunted
"collaboration" services.
Oompfh. Big words.
Well: I'm looking for a ready-to-run Active Directory replacement,
with group policies. (I think you know about all the nice network-wide
configuration work one can does with group policies, don't you?)
Integrating OpenLDAP (or RH-LDAP, for that matter), Kerberos,
cfengine, and a few other tools to achieve the same functionality, is
not for the faint of heart. Especially when it's a hassle to use
Kerberos authentication for many services.
While I'm an died-in-the-whool Unix user (I don't even use one of
these newfangled desktop thingies like KDE or GNOME and am satisfied
with fvwm and Emacs), I have to admit that a centralized way to manage
all servers and desktop, with system- and user(!)-specific profiles,
would be a great thing to have.
Care to name an Open-Source replacement for AD that is already
integrated, and where I don't have to do the integration myself?
Joachim
Well, not as tidy as AD (nor, I suspect, as difficult to diagnose when
it goes wrong) is to use something like AutoYaST to roll out software
and configuration packages (which you roll yourself). Far more powerful
than the MS mandated and controlled policy system, though you can do
similar things with MSIs and the MS package distribution system (SMS is
it?).
I'd guess the previous commenter was thinking of having Linux on the
Desktop too.
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