On Mar 28, 2006, at 16:02, Alex King wrote:
I think this is an excellent idea, and I would like to be involved. Doyou have a focus for this yet? Is there a wiki page or mailing listwhere interested people can join? If not yet, should we continue to use the CDD list to work out whether there is enough interest to start thisproject?
Very good :) No Wiki page yet, so let's use this mailing list for a while longer.
I have installed many such servers using debian as a base, and find thata large amount of configuration is needed which is the same at eachsite. I usually start either with a base debian install and spend manyhours configuring it, or I start with a copy of another server I have installed and munge the config. Neither is ideal, and a CDD with appropriate pre-seeding and sane default configuations would be much better....
I am particularly interested in seeing what's "best practice" in terms of minimizing the number of user/ group databases? Are you using LDAP, plain unix accounts, or a SQL database?
Rgds, Bjorn