Announcing the ubuntu-directory team

[William Grant]

On Saturday 28 October 2006 10:25, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
> On 10/28/06, Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do you pine for a good old days of Active Directory? Does WSUS make
> > your heart throb? Miss these things on Ubuntu? We do and so we have
> > decided to do something about it. Thus I would like announce the
> > creation of the ubuntu-directory team.
>
> How about the people whos hearts cringe at the sound of "AD" and
> simply want to have simple yet powerful ways to understand, set up and
> maintain sets of desktops, servers and services with common users,
> user groups, permissions to groups and all other kinds of
> administrative goodness without understanding what exactly a "domain"
> or "LDAP" is.

Last time I checked, that was what Active Directory was. Although it's not 
easy to leave out the domain idea, you don't need to know about LDAP to use 
Active Directory.

> I tried to understand AD once. It screwed my head up in ways I do not
> want to remember. And remember - I love computers, programming and
> system administration.

That's odd, I find it rather simple to understand. It's just what you 
described above: a group of computers, users and services (to an extent).

> Do we really have to reimplement Microsofts arcane network structure
> for Ubuntu? Cann't we create something that is ... better and simpler
> to understand at the same time? Like, for the human beings? Please
> ....

Although some simplifications can be made, I'm not exactly sure how it could 
be vastly improved... I don't see how Microsoft's structure is arcane. It is 
mostly very simple.

William.
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