Re: Utilities for simple tasks

From: Bas v.d. Wiel (beetjebrak78_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/05/04 

Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 16:13:24 +0200

Charles wrote:
> Em Thu, 05 Aug 2004 01:06:04 -0400, wally <root@localhost.localdomain>
> escreveu:
>
>> Charles wrote:
>>
>>> I'd like to know if there are utilities for Linux and FreeBSD that do
>>> the following (My customers always keep asking me):
>>>
>>> - installs/removes easily programs like in Windows without shell
>>> - installs Photoshop from the Photoshop CD-ROM and add automatically
>>> an icon on the desktop, using WINE
>>> - manages easily users in a network (adding users, removing users)
>>>
>>> All with easy click and go graphical interfaces.
>>> I didn't find it so far :|
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>
>> sysinstall
>>
>
> You're kidding :)
>
>

Hi Charles,
To answer your points:

1. No, usually not, depends on the packaging mechanism in use on the OS.
I personally like Debian's apt in combination with its GUI frontend
Synaptic (if I'm not mistaken about the name).

2. Not exactly. Crossover Office comes close though, and is more than
usable for anyone who can install programs on Windows. This only works
for a small number of popular Windows applications though, happily
Photoshop happens to be one of them.

3. Please define "users in a network". FreeBSD and Linux (by virtue of
the UNIX-like method of doing things) can use a plethora of different
ways to authenticate users. I suggest you take a look at pam (pluggable
authentication modules) and LDAP. LDAP is (in a modified form) the
backend of Windows 2000 domain user management. There are plenty of
graphical management tools for LDAP directories. It will take quite a
bit of effort to install a complete authentication framework based on
LDAP though. You can also install a PAM module that authenticates
against an existing Windows NT (or higher) machine (not necessarily a
server, but it would be wise). This would give you the native Windows
tools to manage users.

Bas

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