On Nov 19, 2007 7:07 AM, Lubomir Kundrak lkundrak@redhat.com wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, 2007-11-19 at 01:18 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
I have expressed my ideas[1] to add and rework some of the functionality of the system-config tools with the hope of making them a bit more innovative and useful.
Please comment on the idea.
Rework (not a total rewrite) system-config tools use a common virtual console which abstracts away local and remote console usage. Anticipated benefits:
* transparently handle local or remote console (via ssh) o allow configuration of remote services
this is possible now: ssh -X my.server system-config-httpd
One question: I know about this method, but have never tried it myself - doesn't it require an xserver on the host?
One comment: The crowd that really love the system-config tools would like prefer not to be doing x forwarding via SSH
o possible allow for OS independent usage (example: system-config-httpd could be used from Windows XP)
You can do the very same thing from Windows XP.
I was thinking more in terms of the user just running system-config-* on Fedora|Windows|* and just enter in a host and passkey|user+pass and make changes to the target system
o allow for those who prefer not to run server tools with a X server installed to make use of the system-config tools
None of the system-config-* tools depends on X server except for system-config-display.
True, but you do generally need a GUI to make use of the GUI system-config tools
* allows for centrally logging system-config actions (audit trail) * standardize routines/functionality commonly used by system-config tools
These seem to be a good ideas to me.
Regards,
Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team)
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