Notes for sysadmin guide

[Jim Campbell <jwcampbell gmail com>]

Hi All,

Here are some of the notes I've come up with for the SysAdmin guide. It is by no means complete. Jeremy and I had discussed some different ways of organizing this, but I suppose this is more of a topic brainstorming list for now. 

What we had discussed was providing big-picture information about dconf configurations up front so that someone can see how the dconf profiles work. We can then provide examples that illustrate how they work in practice, but the goal should be so that someone could make up their own configurations based on the broader dconf-info and the examples.

I'll add these items to the wiki in a more coordinated way once I get back home.  I'm headed out now.   : )

Great seeing all of you, and thanks for all of your help.  : ) 

Jim

What is dconf

Some help topics for dconf-editor

Generically set a default option

OS GUI and System Options
- Set default wallpaper
- Set default font
- Set default application launchers
- Set default theme (e.g., high contrast inverse)

- Set default panel configuration
- Set screen-lock defaults
- Set default power management options
- Set default shell (bash/dash/etc.)
- Set default password change options (e.g., change after 45 days, 90 days, etc.)

- Set password requirements
- Start / stop a particular process at boot 
- Set default "city" location from installation optionsu

Applications
- Set default options for an application (e.g., default settings for gedit)

- Set a certain application as the default app for opening a certain type of file

Networking
- Set default VPN configuration
- Set default regular network settings (DHCP - netmask, broadcast, etc.)
- Set default proxy

- Set a default time synchronization server
- Set mail server default options
- Set default chat application options
- Set default software repository

Hardware
- Detect disk failures / filesystem errors (e.g., bad blocks)

- Disallow USB device storage from being mounted
- Alert sysadmin of low disk space on a machine?
- Set default printer
- Set default print options
- (locking) Disallow saving to the hard disk