Re: [sabayon] Applying profiles to members of a group

["Sayamindu Dasgupta" <sayamindu randomink org>]

On 1/19/07, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-19 at 12:19 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I attached the first iteration of a small script that applies a
> > profile to the members of a given group.
> > You can run it like
> >
> > sabayon4grps.py <groupname> <profilename>
> >
> > I've also pasted the code into http://live.gnome.org/PythonSabayon
>
> In general, it seems to make more sense to do things like this at login.
> I.E. look at what groups the user is in and how they map to a profile,
> then apply that profile. This way you don't have to rerun some script
> each time group membership changes.

Agreed. But in that case it would be necessary to extend the users.xml
file to support groups as well. I have put some of my thoughts in
http://bugs.gnome.org/344272

> You can do this with the sabayon ldap support even. There is an example
> at:
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/sabayon/ldap.html

Yeah - I'm looking into that. Will need to implement a LDAP setup in
my system to do testing though :-)

Cheers,
-sdg-


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