Re: useradd, groupadd, usermod....

[rossp@ppc.ucsc.edu]

Thanks!  CPU looks like exactly it.

Ross Patterson
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On 9 Feb 2003, Adam Williams wrote:

> >I'm about to start messing with useradd, usermod, userdel and their
> >group siblings and just wanted to see what's already out there.
> >I have a debian system using pam_ldap and nss_ldap.  I'd like to keep
> >using adduser so that I don't have to worry about breaking debian
> >specific stuff.  In the future, I'd also like to intercept only the
> >operations of useradd that are required (e.g. actual account creation, but
> >not necessarily home dir creation) so that I don't break any dist or
> >OS specific stuff OR have to rewrite it.
> >I know adduser can use adduser.local, but that's after account and
> >group creation through useradd and groupadd wich directly modify the
> >/etc files, so that won't do.
> >So I think I'm gonna start with a script to replace useradd and
> >possibly a seperate adduser.local script.  But before I started such a
> >thing, I was wondering if anyone has been doing any work on such a
> >thing.
>
> There are already several such replacement tools.  Include direct
> replacements of adduser and friends.  See the Third Party section of my
> LDAP presentation for a litany of these -
> ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/pdf/ldapv3.pdf
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