[ale] remote user management

[Jeff Lightner]

You could always just launch a PuTTY ssh session into one of your servers and do the script on the server.  (You'd of course need to install PuTTY.)

Alternatively you could install CygWin and do your Linux script that does the ssh to the server(s) and runs the useradd etc... on each.  For that to be automatic you'd need ssh trusts established.  

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 3:24 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] remote user management

webmin work OK with IE....

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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