help-cfengine
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: user accounts


From: Adrian Phillips
Subject: Re: user accounts
Date: 22 Feb 2002 10:14:14 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1

>>>>> "Mark" == Mark Burgess <Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no> writes:

    Mark> We use it ourselves here at Oslo, in connection with various
    Mark> scripts, to copy the password files around etc. We also use
    Mark> to check for files remaining from users (like crontabs or
    Mark> mail files) which no longer belong to registered users.

    Mark> SpoolDirectories / [Warn|Delete]NonUserMail

    Mark> etc.

    Mark> We use copy to install basic setup files (e.g. home/.cshrc )
    Mark> We use some perl scripts to actually register new users in
    Mark> master passwd and to reformat the password file between
    Mark> different unix flavours.  /etc/shadow is easy - it cna just
    Mark> be copied, but passwd is harder.

How do you handle the different flavours of crypt or using MD5 for
Linux systems, if at all ?

Regards,

Adrian

-- 
Your mouse has moved.
Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect.
Reboot now?  [OK]



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]