What I’m wondering about Sabayon (and Gnome) is how does it deals with shared homedirs ? When a user have a NFS mounted homedir authenticated with LDAP and log on different machine with possibly different version of Gnome ??

but

sabayon-apply is not enough for an enterprise

we really need some client side system which can apply profiles from a centralized server

we need default profil for the whole network, specific profil by IP (maybe we don’t want the same profil for user with differents computers) , profil by logon name and profil by some kind of “classes” (a kind of ldap tree with hierarchical differents classes or differents “kinds” of users)

in fact we need a flexible automatical system to program WHAT profil we want for the users we want.

I think we need two differents tools :

one will apply a remote get profil when the user log , the remote server will know what profil to send thanks to an ldap based hierarchical tree.

a second tool will simply put the profil in the $HOME folder of an user and will not use a automatical remote profil.
it can be very useful when we know the profil will not need to bu updated and for some performances needs. Sabayon-apply seems to be good for that.

At the moment what sabayon-apply does is look at /etc/desktop-profiles/users.xml, to figure out what profile to use, which can be either a relative filename (zipfile looked up in /etc/desktop-profiles/) or a http uri which will be downloaded (a local cache used too).

Furthermore, the xml file can include other xml files that you can pull via a http uri too, so you can do all the setup centrally.

But I think this is a bit simplistic. It needs to handle more than just username -> profile (i.e. groups, ip, etc. that you mention), and it needs to easily hook up with LDAP in larger networks.

How about considering automatically ‘surpressing’ some more of those ‘side effects’ like not leaving backup copy of secretary-report.txt~ or similar to make list of changes compact and cleaner?

As mentioned in previous comments, LDAP integration would be incredibly useful for us.

Thanks for the great work!
-lars