On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, Arthur Corliss wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2010, jonr@destar.net wrote:
>
>> What linux needs is a good centralized config management system that's
>> easy to setup, use and extend. MS has this already and that is one
>> thing that is really nice about AD. I personally am not a fan of
>> removing a users access from a 100+ boxes one box at a time.
>
> <G> There's expect, cfengine, bcfg2, chef, puppet, etc., etc., etc.
>
> It's all there. It's just a question of whether you want to use it and am
> willing to take the initiative to use them.
Ignoring my poor grammar I also have to point out that AD, GPOs, etc., is
only *half* a config management system. It can apply policies, but it does
very little to track the history, rationale, and whom is applying such.
--Arthur Corliss
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