I would say one of the main reasons we don't see much enterprise deployment of Linux and KDE is that there doesn't seem to be any real alternative in the KDE world to Active Directory and group policies etc.

Is any work underway to remedy this situation?

Thanks!

Dan

I'd like to add that I think that not only is Active Directory, or maybe more specifically its tools used to manage it, is poorly designed (I suspect intentionally to help sell courses, certs and books etc) but that the majority of organisations only use a small percentage of its functionality so if KDE was to have something similar I think it could create something much more user (admin) friendly and I'd recommend starting off just concentrating on providing the most used functionality within AD.

samba 4 is nearing its first stable release now so instead of re-inventing the wheel, it may be better for KDE to go the route of integrating with samba 4 and providing GUI tools for managing/ joining domains etc. I'd expect (mainly) MS environments who want to integrate and/or gradually shift to Linux would prefer this route than a whole new architecture.

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In terms of something similar to Active Directory policies, KDE does have the Kiosk framework integrated into the core of it's code. However, the support for it in individual applications varies - newer applications are more likely to miss the lock down functionality, or have problems with respecting the lock down preferences.

As for the rest of the stack (application deployment, single user/group hierarchy, etc) that is outside scope of KDE itself - although we do use the appropriate NSS bindings so if the system is aware of users/groups at that level the KDE user interface can handle them.