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Also: what is the Linux equivalent of Active Directory / Windows domain? How do you centrally manage workstations? (push software updates, configure firewall ru

by zvrba 9y ago

Also: what is the Linux equivalent of Active Directory / Windows domain? How do you centrally manage workstations? (push software updates, configure firewall rules and other access policies, etc.)

lucb1e 9y ago
> what is the Linux equivalent of Active Directory / Windows domain? LDAP > How do you centrally manage workstations? SSH This is how my school does it: there is a system user with an ssh key which they use for pushing updates and such (e.g. recently fail2ban was installed on all computers), and we can all log into any system using LDAP.
- dogma1138 9y ago
  Active directory isn’t equivalent to a basic LDAP directory not even close. To have similar functionality you need a commercial directory solution. Same goes for remote management SSH is how you connect to machines remotely not how you manage them. Automation of Linux desktop again requires either a commercial product or a huge development undertaking. The problem with Linux on the desktop is that if you get out of the Microsoft ecosystem you need products to centrally manage users, workstations, configuration and patch management and all of these usually require you to go for other enterprise solutions even if they are OpenSource in their core but still commercial in practice.
- pjmlp 9y ago
  So basically they are stuck in the 80's.
danieldk 9y ago
How do you centrally manage workstations? (push software updates, configure firewall rules and other access policies, etc.) There are different solutions, such as Red Hat's Satellite: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/satellite https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/satellite Or Canonical's Landscape: https://landscape.canonical.com/ https://landscape.canonical.com/ But a tech-savvy team could do the same with Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.

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Also: what is the Linux equivalent of Active Directory / Windows domain? How do you centrally manage workstations? (push software updates, configure firewall ru

by zvrba 9y ago

Also: what is the Linux equivalent of Active Directory / Windows domain? How do you centrally manage workstations? (push software updates, configure firewall rules and other access policies, etc.)

lucb1e 9y ago
> what is the Linux equivalent of Active Directory / Windows domain? LDAP > How do you centrally manage workstations? SSH This is how my school does it: there is a system user with an ssh key which they use for pushing updates and such (e.g. recently fail2ban was installed on all computers), and we can all log into any system using LDAP.
- dogma1138 9y ago
  Active directory isn’t equivalent to a basic LDAP directory not even close. To have similar functionality you need a commercial directory solution. Same goes for remote management SSH is how you connect to machines remotely not how you manage them. Automation of Linux desktop again requires either a commercial product or a huge development undertaking. The problem with Linux on the desktop is that if you get out of the Microsoft ecosystem you need products to centrally manage users, workstations, configuration and patch management and all of these usually require you to go for other enterprise solutions even if they are OpenSource in their core but still commercial in practice.
- pjmlp 9y ago
  So basically they are stuck in the 80's.
danieldk 9y ago
How do you centrally manage workstations? (push software updates, configure firewall rules and other access policies, etc.) There are different solutions, such as Red Hat's Satellite: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/satellite https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/management/satellite Or Canonical's Landscape: https://landscape.canonical.com/ https://landscape.canonical.com/ But a tech-savvy team could do the same with Ansible, Puppet, Chef, etc.