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RE: User management
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Eric Sorenson |
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RE: User management |
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Tue, 27 Sep 2005 17:06:57 -0700 (PDT) |
On Tue, 26 Sep 2005, Martin, Jason H wrote:
> Are you sure you want to do this with CFEngine instead of via something
> like LDAP?
Yes LDAP. Then you can have your local accounts and eat 'em too.
> An editfiles block for /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow would probably work.
We used to do this but it's really, really bad. There were lots of
ways that it failed, often leaving 0-length shadow files, which
completely hosed the machines.
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