alt Hacker NewsThis looks really close to what I need. I manage a few laptops for a non-profit. For now, it is all done by hand, since I haven't found a good solution for Linux and I will kill myself before using Windows and Intune again.
I would love to see configurations for Linux Mint's Cinnamon. Is there a way to execute custom scripts? How does the user mapping work exactly? Could I create a user in Authentik with a laptop-permission and this would map to a Linux user account?
Nonetheless, this is really great work so far, and if you keep it as nice and tidy as it currently looks, then you might make a nice niche for yourself. I can't wait to try it out.
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solarengineer • today at 11:32 AM
Would ansible meet some or all of your needs?
Unfortunately, only LDAP is currently supported. There is no implementation of Enterprise SSO like Oauth/SAML. It's planned for the future, but not in priority for now.
I have never tested Cinnamon, but it should work in theory, because it stores most of it's settings in dconf.
Custom scripts: deliberately not, so far. Once a management agent runs arbitrary scripts as root, it stops being a policy system and becomes remote-code-execution-as-a-service — the security review, the audit story, and the "what exactly is enforced on this machine?" It may be implemented in the future, but with a ENV variable/config property from the application configuration. The same goes for configuration management systems like Ansible.
Thank you for the interest! I'm interested in developing a community around the software.