configuration manager: was "Official" gnome window manager

[Mark Hamstra <mark hamstra Bentley com>]

On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Urmane Hendrake wrote:
:> > I'll (finally) bite: people are always talking about using LDAP for
:> > these kinds of things.
:> > 
:> > Why?
:> 
:>  Because people don't usually export home directories (via NFS) over the
:> Internet.  LDAP is a *great* candidate for just exporting config files to
:> a gnome-compliant machine.  I would really not want to run NFS on my
:> machines just to export an environment.
:
:Wrap the filesystem(s) in CORBA and implement a security service and
:avoid LDAP and NFS.  Not easy (not even close), but how would people
:react when you say, "Oh, yeah, GNOME lets you keep your environment
:no matter where on the 'net you log in: home, work, laptop, whatever."
:Not directly related to gnome proper; perhaps an associated project
:could be formed.

I'm not saying CORBA couldn't do it or might not be a better way (I don't
really know enough CORBA to be able to have such an opinion), and I had
some vague notion of CORBA in mind when I initially wrote "LDAP-type",
but what exactly do you see is the advantage of what you have proposed
vs. LDAP + SSL + client-side cerificates?

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Mark Hamstra
Bentley Systems, Inc.