Requirements and pre-analysis for a cross desktop configuration infrastructure

[Dave Cridland]

On Thu Mar 17 11:57:53 2005, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
> It's not the applications that depend on it, it's an admin thing -> you want 
> to be able to enforce the corporation wide standards (e.g. make sure people 
> can't accidentally change the mail server settings of the corporate 
> account, making them call the helpdesk with a my mail doesn't work anymore)

Which raises another issue - should a configuration system allow a view of everyone's configuration (subject to ACLs, of course), which then allows the helpdesk to correct this issue, potentially remotely?

ACAP does this, too, incidentally.

Dave.