CentOS - Jan 2015 - Is anyone using C7 in production yet? (sssd, nss-pam-ldapd, kerberos, etc)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Fred Smith
> Sent: den 21 januari 2015 15:35
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Is anyone using C7 in production yet? (sssd, nss-pam-
> ldapd, kerberos, etc)
>
> > > > Before I fire up a test VM (is it even worth it?) I wanted
to check
> > > > feedback from the community.
> > >
> > > It works well.  Use sssd instead of nss-pam-ldapd and nss_ldap
and
> > > pam_krb5.
> >
> > We tested it a few months ago, and decided to wait a little while more
> > until
> > we roll it out.
> >
> > Most of the test users weren't too happy with the new desktop
> environment.
> > 8-)
>
> Can't say as I blame them. Did you try giving them the MATE desktop
> instead?
I did, but didn't feel it was worth the extra hassle.
Besides, I was never able to make Mate sticky, i.e. after each logout C7 
reverted to the default DE for the user, whatever I did. Same thing with KDE. 
Go figure.
After several tests and failures, I just left it at that.

Maybe that bug(?) has been fixed by now.

--
//Sorin

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 03:15:35PM +0000, Sorin Srbu
wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at
centos.org] On
> > Behalf Of Fred Smith
> > Sent: den 21 januari 2015 15:35
> > To: centos at centos.org
> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Is anyone using C7 in production yet? (sssd,
nss-pam-
> > ldapd, kerberos, etc)
> >
> > > > > Before I fire up a test VM (is it even worth it?) I
wanted to check
> > > > > feedback from the community.
> > > >
> > > > It works well.  Use sssd instead of nss-pam-ldapd and
nss_ldap and
> > > > pam_krb5.
> > >
> > > We tested it a few months ago, and decided to wait a little while
more
> > > until
> > > we roll it out.
> > >
> > > Most of the test users weren't too happy with the new desktop
> > environment.
> > > 8-)
> >
> > Can't say as I blame them. Did you try giving them the MATE
desktop
> > instead?
> 
> I did, but didn't feel it was worth the extra hassle.
> Besides, I was never able to make Mate sticky, i.e. after each logout C7 
> reverted to the default DE for the user, whatever I did. Same thing with
KDE.
I've not seen that, I use MATE on C7 and it always comes up in MATE.
> Go figure.
> After several tests and failures, I just left it at that.
> 
> Maybe that bug(?) has been fixed by now.
don't know, I've done that since one of the early betas, and never saw
that problem.


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
> Behalf Of Fred Smith
> Sent: den 21 januari 2015 16:35
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Is anyone using C7 in production yet? (sssd, nss-pam-
> ldapd, kerberos, etc)
>
> > > Can't say as I blame them. Did you try giving them the MATE
desktop
> > > instead?
> >
> > I did, but didn't feel it was worth the extra hassle.
> > Besides, I was never able to make Mate sticky, i.e. after each logout
C7
> > reverted to the default DE for the user, whatever I did. Same thing
with
> > KDE.
>
> I've not seen that, I use MATE on C7 and it always comes up in MATE.
>
> > Go figure.
> > After several tests and failures, I just left it at that.
> >
> > Maybe that bug(?) has been fixed by now.
>
> don't know, I've done that since one of the early betas, and never
saw
> that problem.
Weird.

After I tried it on a test machine, I did the same basic install on several 
VMs  (using Virtualbox). Same thing there. And same thing whether it was a 
root user or a regular.

If I can find the time, I'll give another go on a brand SFF-desktop. The
other
physical test computer was an OEM, in case that would matter.

-- 
//Sorin

On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:15:35 +0000
Sorin Srbu wrote:
> Besides, I was never able to make Mate sticky, i.e. after each logout C7 
> reverted to the default DE for the user, whatever I did. Same thing with
KDE.
yum remove gnome-classic-session gnome-session-xsession

That removes the gnome-classic.desktop,  gnome-custom-session.desktop and
gnome.desktop files from the /usr/share/xsessions directory without affecting
any gnome or gtk programs.  All that's left in that directory now is
mate.desktop, no choices show up on the gdm login screen, mate is the default
and only available desktop.


-- 
MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com

Without wanting to be too provocative, I am running Fedora 21 on a
workstation and Fedora 20 on a laptop. I can't see myself ever running an
OS based on either of these for a server. It's about that whole ******d
thing.

But at least sssd works, despite the poor desktop environment ;-)

Thanks guys

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 3:13 AM, Frank Cox <theatre at
melvilletheatre.com>
wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2015 15:15:35 +0000
> Sorin Srbu wrote:
>
> > Besides, I was never able to make Mate sticky, i.e. after each logout
C7
> > reverted to the default DE for the user, whatever I did. Same thing
with
> KDE.
>
> yum remove gnome-classic-session gnome-session-xsession
>
> That removes the gnome-classic.desktop,  gnome-custom-session.desktop and
> gnome.desktop files from the /usr/share/xsessions directory without
> affecting any gnome or gtk programs.  All that's left in that directory
now
> is mate.desktop, no choices show up on the gdm login screen, mate is the
> default and only available desktop.
>
>
> --
> MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com
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