[ale] remote user management

[Ben Alexander]

I'm actually more interested in poor man solutions and doing on own -- not
necessarily synching up with AD or anything else, just basically running
useradd and pwd type commands through scripting from Windows to Linux.

2009/9/2 Björn Gustafsson <bg-ale at bjorng.net>

> 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
>
> --
> Björn Gustafsson
>
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