Ben Cotton

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Ben Cotton is a meteorologist by training, but weather makes a great hobby. Ben works as the Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat. He is the author of Program Management for Open Source Projects. Find him on Twitter (@FunnelFiasco) or at FunnelFiasco.com.

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What are configuration management tools?

Ha! That ad is a classic. Thanks for reminding me about it.

bcotton
What are configuration management tools?

Greg, thanks for your comment. The context is basically "anything that runs on the system." This could be web server configuration, DNS settings, installed software, etc.

As for the "big-brotherish" part, that's a political question, not a technical one. If there's a sysadmin managing your desktop, then approval for changes is not yours to give. If you manage your own desktop, then you would be the sysadmin in that context.