Hello ! What i am missing in all Linux-distributions (please correct me, if i'm wrong), is the possibility to install (or de-install or whatever needs to be done) packages on another machine remotely and/or scheduled. I experienced, that it is a big thumb-up for decision- makers if a system is supporting this functionality.
I'm aware off course, that there is a certain security problem, especially if the sources of the related software is publically available. One can not base on the "security" of keys generated at runtime from compiled-in constants or whatever ... like some well-known expensive system-management-tools do. It just would be nice to have a tool, where one can type in (or read in from a file) a list of machines, where sth. should be installed at a certain time (in the night usually). The rexec-tool would make these things not too difficult, but it would require the superuser-passwords to be stored in some secure place, what is somewhat problematic. I have no real solution for this at hand, just wanted to point out, that for a large-scale introduction of Linux in the industry this functionality might become an important feature ... just my opinion. Albert Fluegel -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
