[ale] remote user management

[Robert L. Harris]

I use on run by text files and rsync. It doesn't tie in to the windows  
env, but I want them separate.

:wq
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Robert L. Harris
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On Sep 2, 2009, at 9:19, Björn Gustafsson <bg-ale at bjorng.net> wrote:

> Depends on how much you want to spend.  There are a number of for-pay
> services that allow you to manage UNIX user accounts from
> ActiveDirectory.  For example Quest sells an AD authentication client
> for UNIX and Linux servers, but it's expensive.
> http://www.quest.com/authentication-services/
>
> There are also open-source solutions that e.g. let you sync passwords
> between an AD server and an LDAP directory.  I can't say how well
> those work, since I haven't tried any of them, but I expect they'd
> require you to use the MD4 hash from the AD side in order to push the
> passwords into LDAP.
>
> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Ben Alexander<ben-ale at bensbox.com>  
> wrote:
>> I just started looking into remote user management of linux users  
>> (create,
>> delete, change password) from a Windows system, and was wondering  
>> all the
>> methods available.  Curious to see if anyone has ideas on doing  
>> this with
>> and without cygwin?  Mostly looking at this for Linux systems, but  
>> also
>> interested in Unix HPUX, AIX, etc.  Thanks,
>> Ben
>
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> Björn Gustafsson
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