Defining Operating System Policies.

Lenux78 · 03-07-2008, 12:22 PM

Hello Everyone,

As all you know in Windows you can define defferent policies to the Operating System..

There is something like that in Linux?. I know you could do some restrictions in /etc/pam.d but there is other way to do That?

Some friend told me that Novell have a software name sendwork or centwork I really don't remember.. anyone knows about that??

Thanks

Lenux78

unSpawn · 03-08-2008, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Lenux78

As you all know in Windows you can define different policies to the Operating System..

You mean like GPOs?

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Originally Posted by Lenux78

There is something like that in Linux?. I know you could do some restrictions in /etc/pam.d but there is other way to do That?

Depends on what kind of policies you want to define (examples are welcome).

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Originally Posted by Lenux78

Some friend told me that Novell have a software name sendwork or centwork I really don't remember.. anyone knows about that??

No. Doesn't ring a bell. Maybe check their website.

Deleriux · 03-09-2008, 04:47 PM

Yes, there are policies like GPO but its done on a per application basis. Unlike with windows the "policies" so to speak are not all centrally put in one location.

Defining a policy for Apache would involve apache configs, whilst defining a policy for NTP would be done in the ntp.conf.

As for defining access policies to such systems, then that might involve innovative use of group permissions and/or the use of sudo or pam.