[ale] remote user management

[bg-ale at bjorng.net (Björn Gustafsson)]

Depends on how much you want to spend.  There are a number of for-pay
services that allow you to manage UNIX user accounts from
ActiveDirectory.  For example Quest sells an AD authentication client
for UNIX and Linux servers, but it's expensive.
http://www.quest.com/authentication-services/

There are also open-source solutions that e.g. let you sync passwords
between an AD server and an LDAP directory.  I can't say how well
those work, since I haven't tried any of them, but I expect they'd
require you to use the MD4 hash from the AD side in order to push the
passwords into LDAP.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Ben Alexander<ben-ale at bensbox.com> wrote:
> I just started looking into remote user management of linux users (create,
> delete, change password) from a Windows system, and was wondering all the
> methods available. ?Curious to see if anyone has ideas on doing this with
> and without cygwin? ?Mostly looking at this for Linux systems, but also
> interested in Unix HPUX, AIX, etc. ?Thanks,
> Ben

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