Some additional comments: I continue to be impressed by the number of packages shipped with SuSE Linux. There are packages there that I did not know even existed, to solve problems that I had thought required using Windows 95 or Windows 98. My initial impression: SuSE Linux is a good platform for the Linux enthusiast. However, I am seeing a lack of enterprise-ready features, or maybe just not seeing them. For example, PAM is important because it allows using a centralized authentication mechanism such as RADIUS or Kerberos without modifications to end-user programs. Similarly, keeping runlevel configuration scripts in /etc/rc.d rather than in /sbin/init.d helps with setting up a corporate-wide backup policy (yes, they're scripts, but no, they're more configuration files than executables). Similarly, being able to add stuff to the daily crontabs cross-network with no scripting simply by dumping a script into the directory /etc/cron.daily etc. like I did with Red Hat 4.2 across a WAN of 250 machines scattered across a 5000 square mile area is the kind of enterprise-class solution that I need. Don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying SuSE Linux. However, I would not deploy it in my enterprise from what I see so far. More as I keep digging. I am currently downloading the updates from ftp.suse.com. One problem I have is with the way the updates directory is laid out. I cannot just glance at one directory and see if anything new has come in since the last time I looked. Rather, I must dig through a whole heirarchy of directories. In addition, there does not seem to be a common naming scheme. Some rpms have their version number as part of their name, which is nice because I can do a "rpm -q" on my local system and see if I need them. Others do not, and I have no choice but to download them because I don't know if they are a later version than what is on my system. On Thu, 26 Nov 1998, Lenz Grimmer wrote:
No, there's no PAM in SuSE Linux. You could have downloaded the right ssh-RPMs from ftp.gwdg.de, for example...
Is there a security archive for SuSE Linux the way that ftp.replay.com serves as a security archive for Red Hat Linux? -- Eric Lee Green eric@linux-hw.com <A HREF="http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric"><A HREF="http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric</A">http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric</A</A>> "Linux represents a best-of-breed UNIX, that is trusted in mission critical applications..." -- internal Microsoft memo - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e