On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:08:10AM -0500, David Lee wrote:
>no-re...@cfengine.com wrote:
>> Forum: Cfengine Help
>> Subject: Re: Managing user accounts with Cfengine 3
>> Author: kenneho
>> Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,20993,21097#msg-21097
>>
>> Thanks, I'll check out that create_users bundle you've written.
>>
>> I must say that I'm surprised that Cfengine doesn't ship with any built-in
>> code to manage users.
>> [...]
>
>I, too, am surprised that there isn't somewhere a collection (either
>official or unofficial-but-recognised) of "*.cf" files for various bits
>of functionality that a lot of people would find themselves doing.
Agreed.
As commented elsewhere, cfwiki.org used to serve this purpose, but it's
gone defunct. I've tried to contact the admin several times, and gotten
no response.
Does anyone have thoughts on a suitable replacement? Is anyone willing
to host such a thing on their own systems? Would one of the public wiki
hosting sites work (Wikia, or wikispot, for example)? maybe something
like github or SourceForce would be better?
>In addition to management of users, there are things such as
>NIS/YP-client configuration, NTP-client configuration, etc. And some of
>these themselves would have mutually shared commonality (for instance,
>both these examples have the concepts of a service being configured
>(e.g. "Redhat "chkconfig") and kept running (e.g. Redhat "service ...
>start") and reloading after config change (e.g. Redhat "service ...
>reload"). (And, of course, being stopped if a policy decision came
>through to that effect.)
There's a *lot* of benefit to stuff like this.
>A lot of us must be re-inventing a lot of wheels, and probably
>re-inventing them in suboptimal non-round, even square or worse, shapes.
Yep, we certainly are. :)
>A collection of such very common things would not only be very useful to
>sites getting started, but would also serve as "good practice" examples
>for our subsequent local development of other things.
One of the things that a lot of new cfengine users could benefit from
are very focused examples for non-trivial tasks. Yes, there are lots of
examples in the reference manual, but many of them (especially for
body{} definitions) are very limited in scope.
--
Jesse Becker
NHGRI Linux support (Digicon Contractor)
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