Re: Cfengine Help: Looking for ideas: System User Management

2010-09-29 Thread Francisco Reyes
no-re...@cfengine.com writes: > I understand that at the end of the day - it's all about handling > /etc/passwd > /etc/group > /etc/shadow > files, + home directories for users and perhaps sudoers file. If all you are trying to do is to manage access have you considered any form of centralized

Cfengine Help: Re: Cfengine Help: Looking for ideas: System User Management

2010-09-28 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Re: Cfengine Help: Looking for ideas: System User Management Author: absinfo_...@yahoo.com Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18526,18530#msg-18530 Daniel, That's great news, thanks for the information. Just a question: where/how you are goi

Re: Cfengine Help: Looking for ideas: System User Management

2010-09-28 Thread Daniel V. Klein
Eduard- I have been developing a "maintain user accounts" system with Cfengine (so that you can add users and initialize their dotfiles, do password distribution or allow users to change their passwords, mark some fields as static and others as changeable, etc). This will be released very soon

Cfengine Help: Looking for ideas: System User Management

2010-09-28 Thread no-reply
Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: Looking for ideas: System User Management Author: absinfo_...@yahoo.com Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,18518,18518#msg-18518 Hi, Still I'm a newbie to cfengine and would appreciate ideas, known/best practices on how to organize system user mana