[K12OSN] Wish list

[Les Mikesell]

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 18:35, Eric Harrison wrote:

> 3) stuff I can bug other people about

One more thing for the 'bug someone else' category:  Find out what is up
with development on the free version of SME server these days and see if
it is possible to make it integrate better into a Linux network.  It
would be really great if its web based user/group management maintained
an LDAP server with the current schemas needed for network
authentications, it had NFS to export the home directories, and its
DNS was a little more flexible about not being the primary for the
domain. And the install needs to know about more drives...  But, some
fairly small changes could make it trivial to set up a master file,
email, and authentication server that could be used by any number of
k12ltsp app servers which would then need next-to-no individual
configuration and would no hold anything that needs to be backed up.

Of course, SME needs to be moved to fedora, Centos, or some other
current yum-maintained distro to make it a reasonable server choice.
An alternative would be enhancements to webmin that combine functions
like the SME server-manager does: add a user, get the LDAP entry, add a
unix group, get an email group, add a virtual domain, get both email and
a web server for it, manage DHCP hardware addresses on the same screen
as the DNS name, etc. 

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   Les Mikesell
     les at futuresource.com