Re: Centralized user management: what is best?

2006-01-16 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mauro Condarelli wrote: >>== >>Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 11:31:53 -0500 >>From: Jay Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>Subject: Re: Centr

RE: Centralized user management: what is best?

2006-01-16 Thread Žáček Kryštof
I think there should be a debian package/packages solving this problem automagically for those who do not want to go through all the reading themselves. It should contain something like this: openldap, samba, kerberos, nsswitch, pam-ldap with all the needed configuration and simple wizards, al

Re: Centralized user management: what is best?

2006-01-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/01/06 17:31), Jay Zach wrote: > I'll throw some links in from where I've emailed them to myself in the > past for future reference. I don't have time right now to go through > them all to see what were the most useful (and I truthfully don't > remember -- this whole process involved a bunch

Re: Centralized user management: what is best?

2006-01-14 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Clive Menzies wrote: > On (14/01/06 11:31), Jay Zach wrote: > >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>Hash: SHA1 >> >>Mauro Condarelli wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>>I have a small (<8 hosts) lan with mixed Linux (debian) and winXP hosts. >>>Up to now I managed t

Re: Centralized user management: what is best?

2006-01-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (14/01/06 11:31), Jay Zach wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mauro Condarelli wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a small (<8 hosts) lan with mixed Linux (debian) and winXP hosts. > > Up to now I managed the debian hosts manually (copying /etc/passwd, > > /erc/groups, ..., man

Re: Centralized user management: what is best?

2006-01-14 Thread Marty
Mauro Condarelli wrote: Hi, I have a small (<8 hosts) lan with mixed Linux (debian) and winXP hosts. Up to now I managed the debian hosts manually (copying /etc/passwd, /erc/groups, ..., manually), but that is a real pain. I did recently suffer a severe breakdown so I reinstalled most of the mac

Re: Centralized user management: what is best?

2006-01-14 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 1/14/06, Jay Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mauro Condarelli wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a small (<8 hosts) lan with mixed Linux (debian) and winXP hosts. > > Up to now I managed the debian hosts manually (copying /etc/passwd, > > /erc/groups

Re: Centralized user management: what is best?

2006-01-14 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mauro Condarelli wrote: > Hi, > I have a small (<8 hosts) lan with mixed Linux (debian) and winXP hosts. > Up to now I managed the debian hosts manually (copying /etc/passwd, > /erc/groups, ..., manually), but that is a real pain. > I did recently suf

Re: Centralized user management: what is best?

2006-01-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mauro Condarelli wrote: Hi, I have a small (<8 hosts) lan with mixed Linux (debian) and winXP hosts. Up to now I managed the debian hosts manually (copying /etc/passwd, /erc/groups, ..., manually), but that is a real pain. I did recently suffer a severe breakdown so I reinstalled most of the mac

Centralized user management: what is best?

2006-01-13 Thread Mauro Condarelli
Hi, I have a small (<8 hosts) lan with mixed Linux (debian) and winXP hosts. Up to now I managed the debian hosts manually (copying /etc/passwd, /erc/groups, ..., manually), but that is a real pain. I did recently suffer a severe breakdown so I reinstalled most of the machines. At this point I wou

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-30 Thread Darryl Clarke
On 7/29/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I currently have a small home network (1 server, 1 workstation, 1 > laptop) with only two users. What I would like to do is to setup some > sort of centralized user authentication mechanism (NIS, LDAP, whatever) > with hom

Re: FW: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 11:10:04AM -0500, Jason Clinton wrote: > On Saturday 30 July 2005 10:59, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Cool. Would you consider posting it so I have a starting point? No > > sense reinventing the wheel :-) > > Unfortunately, the script is owned by my employer so I can't s

Re: FW: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-30 Thread Jason Clinton
On Saturday 30 July 2005 10:59, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Cool. Would you consider posting it so I have a starting point? No > sense reinventing the wheel :-) Unfortunately, the script is owned by my employer so I can't share it. But all I did was set up OpenLDAP, use the Official Samba HOWTO

Re: FW: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 10:58:22AM -0500, Jason Clinton wrote: > On Saturday 30 July 2005 09:15, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Right. I am looking for something more cross platform. At least to > > cover Windows and Linux and maybe Mac OS X. I am not familiar with > > Windows networking, so I do

Re: FW: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-30 Thread Jason Clinton
On Saturday 30 July 2005 09:15, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Right. I am looking for something more cross platform. At least to > cover Windows and Linux and maybe Mac OS X. I am not familiar with > Windows networking, so I don't know what all the correct terminology is. > I just recall that at o

Re: FW: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:57:12PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > But there was nothing about getting a "roaming profile" type of setup. > > Roaming Profiles and Offline Folders are different Windows features. You need > domain networking and Windows Server (2003,

FW: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread David Christensen
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > But there was nothing about getting a "roaming profile" type of setup. Roaming Profiles and Offline Folders are different Windows features. You need domain networking and Windows Server (2003, maybe 2k) to enable the former, but only Workgroup networking and a workstat

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:57:17PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > Two things come to mind, neither of which I've used (or used enough) > to judge their viability. > > (1) rsync > which I'm told is a way of keeping two file systems in sync with one another > I currently make heavy use of rsync.

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 02:35:56AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Not long after I started getting to grips with debian, I asked a similar > question and a guy call Todd Pytel sent me a lot of info and suggestions > for solutions (some of it off-list). You should be able to find the > thread by

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:01:28PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Greetings, > > I currently have a small home network (1 server, 1 workstation, 1 > laptop) with only two users. What I would like to do is to setup some > sort of centralized user authentication mechanism (NIS, LDAP, whatever)

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Clive Menzies
On (29/07/05 20:01), Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > I currently have a small home network (1 server, 1 workstation, 1 > laptop) with only two users. What I would like to do is to setup some > sort of centralized user authentication mechanism (NIS, LDAP, whatever) > with home directories mounted from

slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Greetings, I currently have a small home network (1 server, 1 workstation, 1 laptop) with only two users. What I would like to do is to setup some sort of centralized user authentication mechanism (NIS, LDAP, whatever) with home directories mounted from the server. This is primarily since I will

Re: user management

2004-03-10 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 07:22:23PM +0100, Nejc Novak wrote: > I am looking for a user managment tool. I need the following features: > - easy user adding and removing > - first default password option and reset option > - template/mail creation with us

RE: user management

2004-03-08 Thread Drogo Bumbleroot
Check out Webmin, it may be what you're looking for. http://www.webmin.com/ -Original Message- From: Nejc Novak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 1:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: user management Hi! I am looking for a user managment tool. I nee

user management

2004-03-08 Thread Nejc Novak
Hi! I am looking for a user managment tool. I need the following features: - easy user adding and removing - first default password option and reset option - template/mail creation with username and password - web or shell Does anyone of you know for sth like this? Thanks.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: using LDAP as a configuration/user management backend

2002-10-09 Thread Hubert Chan
> "martin" == martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> only way I can think of to have seperate users is to set the 'mail >> only' accounts to have a shell of /dev/null. Or perhaps something >> else like /usr/local/bin/bash, and only make /usr/local/bin/bash >> available on those

Re: using LDAP as a configuration/user management backend

2002-10-09 Thread Dave Carrigan
d9 round-robin to do some fairly unadvanced >load-balancing between them, and should be able to deal with the >failure of one of the three servers fairly easily. For highest availability, you should have at least 1 and preferably 2 ldap servers per subnet. What is your network configu

Re: using LDAP as a configuration/user management backend

2002-10-09 Thread mjirari
Hi , I got the acid main page but got problems - I created my database snortdb - Executed the installation script found in /usr/doc/snort-mysql/contrib/create_mysql - Installed Acid but when i select some links i have this Query execution error: Unknown column 'ip_src0' in 'field list'

Re: using LDAP as a configuration/user management backend

2002-10-09 Thread martin f krafft
to only authenticate off the > slave servers, and do not setup referrers on the slaves. That > way all of the data accessable by the servers is read only. Worst > case is the slave perhaps can get curroption but that won't affect > the master. this is an interesting idea that i wi

Re: using LDAP as a configuration/user management backend

2002-10-09 Thread nate
lave perhaps can get curroption but that won't affect the master. > > 2. Move user management to the LDAP tree. Ideally, I want /etc/passwd > to contain no user but root and the various other defaults that Debian > installs. All users for all systems should be placed in > a glob

using LDAP as a configuration/user management backend

2002-10-09 Thread martin f krafft
unify them by using LDAP as a configuration and user management backend, as well as AFS to share filesystems. I see this as a series of steps as follows. Basically, while I am good with the theory of all this, I have little to no practical experience, so I appreciate any comments. 1. Select three

process/user management

2001-12-14 Thread Lev Lvovsky
hello, a bit newbie at this kind of stuff, but what would be some good resources to look at for resource managment for processes, as well as users? managing things like CPU time, quotas, and bandwidth. this, as well as info on securing boxes for mass shell usage. I know that's a lot, but any inf

Re: user management

1998-01-21 Thread Brian K Servis
Paul Miller writes: > >Is there a program that is similar to Novell's syscon program? Linux >really needs a good user management program (terminal-based) that can >quickly add/remove groups, set passwords/info fields, delete users, set >quotas, etc > >--- >

user management

1998-01-21 Thread Paul Miller
Is there a program that is similar to Novell's syscon program? Linux really needs a good user management program (terminal-based) that can quickly add/remove groups, set passwords/info fields, delete users, set quotas, etc --- Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, finger for pub