TL;DR You can manage Linux Machines with group policy
3 Introduction | Group Policy on Linux
I just though I'd share
Edit: I'm not sure if this actually works. All else fails fall back to Ansible
Why why why would you do that?
Because your insane?
Actually it might be useful in mixed Windows Linux environments.
Compliance. Control. Security. Lots of things?
If you don't trust your employees, though, why give them Linux at all? Windows and Mac make the perfect locked down / restrictive / don't trust people platforms out there. I mean, I understand locking down and securing a server, but a Linux desktop? The only value a Linux desktop has is the freedom to configure it how you like with the apps you like.
I thought this stopped working after MS pulled the Unix subsystem, as samba was using those attributes to manage the Linux systems?
Microsoft pulled those from the UI, but if you're adventurous you can just shove those attributes in to user with power shell and it works the same.
Then just use sssd instead of NIS, surprised me at work when this worked.
This seems like a minefield of clashes with distro-specific behavior. What happens if your system is using different software than what it expects or a policy that exists in Windows doesn't always make sense in the target environment? I wonder how it is being dealt with?
And what about more broad policies like denying filesystem write access?
I'm also interested in this. I'm guessing you'd have to essentially have multiple overlapping sets of policies.
Ansible does some of each.
I hope the global catalog gets finished one day for freeipa.
FreeIPA is very unreliable in my experience. Samba is much more reliable from what I can tell.
My experience is quite the opposite. I have and still use both and find samba one of the more unreliable things. Freeipa does what it does with no issues.
Samba just works. It's easy to set up and easy to manage.
Ironically I was trying to push for some rnd to run all of the GPOs for windows boxes as local policy ran by ansible. Just could stand all of the wonkyness AD introduced into the system.
Yeah, we need better tools
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It's "run", here.
What does TD;DR mean? Or did you mean TL;DR?
Very cool!
All else fails fall back to Ansible
Fucking hell. THAT far back?
We were doing everything Ansible does for the 95% case in 2002. Like, for 95% of use-cases, Ansible is absolutely no better than a conglomeration of tools from 2002. Definitely no reason to pay licensing.
Bonus: since it's version-agnostic (another win over Ansible if you've ever managed Tower/AAP/whatever next week) I'm still using that paradigm today because it works SO well. It's losing to Cinc or mgmtConfig but only because those are 1 and 2 generations newer than Ansible and do offer distinguishing features.
Ansible is foss, free of cost and requires almost no additional overhead or hardware.
It isn't the best sometimes but if you have a bunch of machines to manage it works great. (Assuming they aren't behind a NAT)
Ansible is foss, free of cost and requires almost no additional overhead or hardware.
Um, why are you stressing foss ? I only ask because the 2002 kit was
'It's foss' isn't really a selling point, here, since ansible is still outmatched by everything else available -- including that gaggle of tools from 22 years ago.
... which was foss.
The only thing Ansible has going for it is momentum; and cult-people who haven't seen Chef or even that aforementioned tool-bag. Heaven forbid someone sees MgmtConfig converging 1000 machines in under a second immediately after a file is changed on one (ergo no playbook run taking 10 minutes). They'd be crying every day afterward that they were still stuck on worse-than-2002-technology Ansible. At 2002, Ansible pre-dates GOOGLE MAPS for technology; and facebook; and the iPhone. Ansible is the MapQuest Printout of technology.
The new tech is so reactive, it can revert a file back to conformity immediately after it's saved; before it can be reopened!
AND IT'S STILL OPEN SOURCE. Of course. Because that's a no-brainer.
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