On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 02:12:47PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it's just another checkbox when creating the user in Active
Directory (or maybe if you give them an email address). I am not saying
that we *need* to auto-create, but why must a user write scripts, instead
of being able to check the checkbox (or put an email address in).
I DO agree with you in that the user should be able to check the
checkbox, if you leave me the possibility of modifying what the checkbox
does, that is.
I DO NOT agree that autocreate or auto-(assume that the luser wants this
so do it silently)-anything is user friendly.
I would personally like a single framework for configuration, but all
frameworks i found in 13 years working on unix systems do suck far
more than vi.
I am not saying it cannot be done, what i would like, but i don't know
how to achieve is having a configuration framework that
a) doesn't hide details leaving the user in need of using vi
b) does not make assumptions
c) has decent sanity checks (drakconnect once for obscure reason addedd
ip 10.0.0.1 for my workstation at top of /etc/hosts, i took hours to
understand why random things were malfunctioning)
d) has proper configuration history/rollback features
e) lets the admin configure it with cutomized host or site wide
policies (these should be enough to replace assumptions).
f) is able to adapt to changes in configuration options of the single
subsystem.
OK, then I will stop working on a libconf
(http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/LibconfProject) backend
for OpenLDAP and maybe rather package yet another web frontend, if I can
find one for OpenLDAP (all webmin and Linuxconf modules are nowhere near
being usable).
I never asked for another web frontend, i am just stating that their
existance is caused by repeated failures of creating a decent framework,
or agreing on the need of one, we have tons of linux distros each with
it's own config framework, plus a good number of non distro related
tools.
M$ did not have this problem, and did not even have to deal with 100+
different configuration syntaxes, and 10+ different gui frameworks,
hence the better result.
regards,
L.
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Luca Berra -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Communication Media & Services S.r.l.
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