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Re: user accounts
From: |
Adrian Phillips |
Subject: |
Re: user accounts |
Date: |
22 Feb 2002 10:14:14 +0100 |
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>>>>> "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
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