[Fedora-directory-users] fedoraDS will replace ADS

[Richard Megginson]

osk wrote:
> Hi,
>      we are tring to replace with ADS with Fedora DS, In ADS the 
> following can do, when the client login into ADS domain.
>
> 1) Right click disable for clients
I'm not sure what this means, but the Fedora DS console allows you to 
right click on a user and inactivate/disable without removing.
> 2) Block/Allow the specific software installation
Nope.  This is a feature of Windows + AD - very complex to implement in 
the linux world.
> 3) Can override the users local setting by group policy eg) password 
> expire, if the local user set the password expire date to 5 days, the 
> ADS can override to 3 days.
FDS has per-user/per-subtree password policy.
> 4) Disable the client to change the internet options-> to modify the 
> proxy server name.
> 5) Do the software updates to clients from ADS, if the client not 
> updated properly.
> 6) Block/Allow the regedit from ADS.
Nope.  None of these.  See 2) above.
>
> now we are able to PDC with samba using FedoraDS, and each user can 
> able to login and their profile can create in either common storage or 
> localstorage of FedoraDS server.
That's about it.  Until Samba4 is released, there is no viable 
alternative to everything that AD + Windows can do, especially with 
group policy.
>
>
> Can any one suggest howto fullfill the above points.
>
> regards
> Karthikeyan.N
>
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