On 15 Mar 2005 at 17:06, Thomas Adam wrote:
s/Red Hat/Fedora/g;
I wouldn't have said it mattered one iota. I would imagine the reason it were chosen was because it is what is familiar to the developer(s) of Karoshi. Portability should be such that I should be able to take the project and run it on any Linux distribution I see fit... heh, now *there's* a test for the developers...
Hmm.. I've got a slackware based test box at home, wonder how it'll take to it :-) I must confess to being curious after linuxgirlie's comments about the package. I'm not the network manager however, and any such decisions about network OS aren't my realm, I just support whats in place. It'd be hard to change any momentum behind Novell (been using it since its early days here) I'd also be cautious about using a package that doesn't have such the large support base behind it as Novell or Microsoft, regardless of their quirks, though give me Novell any day over MS.
Bulk user creation is a fairly safe practice in Novell from CSV, though we have experienced peculiarities in the past.
I'm not surprised.
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt?
As to rights, ours are very strict. I'm not sure how strict yours are, but we pretty much run on a basis of deny, and only permit grudgingly, thus we're granting rights down to sub-sub-sub (etc) folder level.
Depends what your $PARANOIA is like, but I would probably be just as cautious, giving staff slightly more access where applicable, etc.
Paranoia levels are nice and high here, and we reap the benefits of it being so when you compare our network to other schools/colleges in the area. Sure, we're not as flexible as other places, but not restrictively so, people just need to give us notice of what they would like to do. We don't suffer the same issues as other schools/colleges in the area either. I'm sure there are ways we could lock our system down even further, like specifying the workstations can only run x, y & z, program files etc, but that's just too much hassle to implement and maintain! ----- Paul Graydon Network Technician Haywards Heath College http://www.hhc.ac.uk (01444) 456281 "Joy is not in things; it is in us." Richard Wagner