[ale] remote user management

[Jim Kinney]

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On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Ben Alexander<ben-ale at bensbox.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
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>> Björn Gustafsson
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