Another thought for feature

[Richard Houston]

> I'm of the opinion that running Firefox on a server is not a
> particularly good idea for a number of reasons.

Oh i agree totally. I am only asking this from the perspective of the
fear I see in some of the Junior admins when they see the cli only login.
I think if it is an option then at deployment time, the individual IS
management can make the decision. Just my thoughts here.

> However, I think I know
> where some of your concern is coming from. There are some tasks which
> just get annoying to perform on a CLI (try configuring complex ACLS with
>  Samba using AD accounts sometime).

I agree. ACL management can be a pain especially if your trying to talk
someone through it over the phone. ;)

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> Which reminds me--a good management interface needs to come out of the
> box on the server. I'm working on building my own AJAX for some of this. I
> figure I'll kill two birds with one stone--learn AJAX and free myself
> from having to manually type in setfacl commands. It gets old fast.
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Thanks sounds great. I would love to help out in anyway. I am not a
programmer but would be more then willing to test/debug through up some
ideas and general thoughts.

Thanks

Rich

> Aaron Kincer
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> Richard Houston wrote:
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>> Hey all.
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>> Sorry if this has been asked and or answered.
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>> For me and a some of the new Linux admins I have setup, a useful
>> option would be a minimal gui env for running some of the admin tools.
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>> it's nice to be able to run wireshark, Firefox and other tools from the
>>  server it self.
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>> It is my opinion that having this feature would frighten less of the
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>> only type admins who I would be dealing with myself.
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>> Thanks and once again hope this has not already been addressed.
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>> Best regards,
>> -Richard Houston
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