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Re: How do I add a new Unix user?

by perigeeV (Hermit)
on May 24, 2001 at 01:24 UTC ( [id://82740]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to How do I add a new Unix user?

The above answers are are good. I've commonly had to add custom features to account creation, but I usually build it as a wrapper around useradd/adduser. Mainly customizations center around site-specific elements, such as unique mail handling/configuration, quotas, sudo capabilities, and group management.

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Re: Re: How do I add a new Unix user?
by blue_cowdawg (Monsignor) on May 25, 2001 at 00:26 UTC

    There is another reason I forgot about for creating a custom login creation script. In one environment I was in user accounts, host namespace, and other goodies were kept in a RDBMS. Several times a day the user namespace would be rebuilt using a query to determine new accounts and build them and then rebuild the /etc/password file, /etc/shadow file, NIS, or NIS+ whichever poison was being used in a particular "zone". The passwords were stored in the RDMS already encrypted and users changed their password by interacting with a client app instead of the usual "passwd" command.


    Peter L. BergholdSchooner Technology Consulting, Inc.
    Peter@Berghold.Netwww.berghold.net

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