Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (60 mails)

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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:53 AM, Jpd <jpd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One problem I see is that how do you manage a room full of suse boxes?
>
> Users management are pretty sorted through AD support.
>
> Patching through auto update seemed ok.
>
> But how do you install software to rooms of pcs with out login into each
> one?
>
> How do you do things like group polices for access to applications?
>
> Things like managing the start menu etc.
>
> For mac there the xserver which does all this, and for windows you can get
> apps.
>
> What is there for Linux?

Use KIWI-LTSP, you will have to manage just one server, applications
installed on the server would show up on every client.

See this for profile lockdowns
http://opseast.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/sledgnome-desktop-lockdown/

Cheers

-J
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