Ubuntu
dhcp3 package

  1. Bug #90388
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 90388

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perpetualrabbit (perpetualrabbit) wrote :

Hello?? It used to work in Hardy!!!

Therefore either a newer version of dhcp3-client or network-manager or a change to the default configuration by the ubuntu developers must have caused this to stop working. The ability to centrally manage large numbers of workstations includes the ability to set the hostname from the server.

I want to express my irritation and frustration over this and other alterations made to ubuntu that makes System administrators lifes miserable. Do you know how much time I have spend to debug this stupid non-bug?
Another problem are these UUID's that popped up in /etc/fstab, in the grub config, even in the initrd for specifying the `resume partition'.

In a network of Ubuntu workstations, I want to:

* set hostnames from the server, via DHCP. NOT the other way around, i.e. let the client change the DNS server records. I do not want to have to create lots of little scripts like in the solution of Christoph Dwertmann for something that used to work without all that.
* I do not want to have network manager at all in managed clients. The users are not allowed to alter the network settings, the network is configured once at boot via dhcp and that is that. No network-manager needed. Make it removable.
* be able to use a single image to roll out to clients. This means that UUID's are not handy to have in /etc/fstab, or in the grub config files. The UUID of partitions in the master image will be wrong for the clients. I do not want to have to fix all the places in /etc/fstab, /boot/grub/grub.cfg, /etc/grub.d/*, the initrd file even, to replace the UUID for the clients UUID's. I just want to use the bloody device files! Just /dev/sda. Can the developers please make it an option to use device files throughout?

Please developers, think about people who administrate Ubuntu in schools, universities, companies etc. Not all ubuntu users are home-users, or laptop users, or server users. You are forgetting a whole class of ubuntu installations, which is Managed Workstations. Please make it easier for the sysadmin.