Re: [Setup-tool-hackers] distributed administration

[Chema Celorio <chema ximian com>]

Diego wrote:
> 
> Hello
> 
>     I've been thinking for several months about building a distributed
>     administration system that would use some of the stuff built by for
>     the ximian-setup-tools.
> 
>     This systema is something like this:
> 
>     Functions that the system has to be able to perform:
> 
>         1) Administration of groups of workstations based on Unix,
>         configuration, software installation, backups, etc.

This is a planned feature for XST. It would be great if we can
work together on this. 

> 
>         3) Administration of net devices (computers that are use as net
>         devices) based on Uinux: routers, bridges, firewalls etc, the
>         system would handle: software instalation, configureation,
>         maintainance and management of security profiles both, at host
>         level and at network level.

We had not thougth about this before, but if you are going to work
on this, it makes sense to use the same infractucture as the XST
tools.

> 
>     Ok, i know that you are thinking about implementing some kind of
>     clustered configuration method, what i propose here is quite more
>     ambitious. I also know that one of your primary objetives and
>     worries is about the security of the system. I cannot do anything

Well, security is very important if you are going to be running backends
as root on others people computers.

regards,
Chema

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