Philipp asked for details about my cfengine patch to Debian-Edu. It’s not as breath-taking as he seems to think. What it does is adding a new cfservd default configuration for Debian-Edu workstations. This way all newly installed workstations can then be configured using cfrun from the server. There two things which are really cool about this. First you can install new workstations and don’t have do to any manual configuration. Second there is a working cfservd configuration on that new workstation which you can use to push your central configuration from the server. The workstations also automatically pull changes from the server on reboot. That’s there for workstations not online during the last execution of cfrun.
Some more details are included on my mailing list post on the Debian-Edu mailing list.