I'm looking into building a more unified user and workstation management system and I thought it would be a good idea to ask others how they have solved the apparent issues.
I would use LDAP for user management and have the home directories mounted over NFS to the workstations, which is quite straight forward and which would also result in "roaming profiles".
But what would be a sort of best practice for managing the workstations? Management would in this case include updating, installing and removing packages, updating configuration files, dist-upgrade:s and so on. Preparing new workstations (semi-) automatically might also be of use.
I'm building everything on Debian and I'd like to do it "the Debian way". Please tell about your experiences, even if they'd be with other distributions.
//DGnome