Re: Fedora Core 2 wishlists

["Nils O." Selåsdal <nos utel no>]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 12:39, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le lun 08/12/2003  21:42, Dan Young a crit :
> > Wil Cooley said:
> > > (Remember the discussion last week about LDAP?)
> > 
> > Apropos LDAP integration, how about a purty system-config-ldap
> > (slapd/schemas/replication/etc.) tool? Probably need to pull in the
> > python-ldap module.
> 
> Well, what we certainly need is tools and sane default templates to
> easily integrate a new system in a small (or not so small) network,
> either as a station or as the main server.
> 
> IE :
> - centralised user info & password (ldap + kerberos)
> - file server (nfs4 ?)
Would be nice, iirc nfsv4 kan do kerberos/gssapi authentication.

> - print server
> - windows integration (samba)
> 
> Most of the software is already there, what we need is something that
> doesn't need a week reading half-baked english howtos to work.
> 
> This would target all SMEs that need relief from MS licensing but do not
> have the internal know-how to integrate all the various pieces, and all
> the home networks (which I do expect to proliferate soon with broadband
> availability, wireless and computer replacement instead of first buys). 
> 
> Fedora right now is a great single-box solution, we need it to take over
> the small networks now (or let the NT bits in XP do it).

Soo +1.
Something to compete with Acive Directory is needed.

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