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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