On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:17 AM, John Watlington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the long term, there appears to be concern that the existing > > administration interfaces for servers are not sufficient for our > > needs. > > I personally not worked w/ webmin or the admin interface for Centos > > SME > > Server so I cannot comment from experience. > > I've worked with Webmin, and the user experience is tolerable. > Our security architect (Ivan) had less than noble things to say about > it's implementation, dissuading us from using it.
Here I am with Ivan - Webmin is the spawn of the devil ;-) - but beyond that, I've seen quite a few web admin UIs, and though some are good, none are what we are after IMHO. A custom web-based admin UI might be something we have to write custom for the XS (*rolls up sleeves*). I am hope we can discuss and sketch some plans for this in the coming days... > I've slowly added scripts automating most of the configuration for > small systems. We are really close to providing a file either on > disk or on USB which configures the system --- it is a trivial > programming > task once the user experience and configuration info have been > agreed upon. Cool - I'll be looking into those... > Larger systems (NYC, Birmingham) are a different > story, as their network configuration is radically different. We will > probably fork builds to handle their case, or move to just supporting > service packages. Can we encapsulate local config in a "local" rpm package with fancy post-inst scripts? cheers, martin _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
