03-17-2011
I talked to my colleague and we would like to solicit help with alternatives to a plain bash script (because of security concerns). You mentioned a web server as one alternative. How would we authenticate against an active directory security group with a freebsd machine that utilizes radius and not LDAP?
How would we actually write the code to add/remove/modify users? Would the web server spawn a shell and do the commands useradd/userdel/usermod commands or is there another way? I've been looking in the perl CPAN API's and I could not find the actual function to add/remove users. One would think that perl packages with names like Provision::Unix::User::FreeBSD or
Provision::Unix::User would have functions like add_user or remove_user or modify_user but these don't!
Also: I don't understand what you mean by a "non-tty batch spin-off". Should we be considering these options too?
thanks,
siegfried
Last edited by siegfried; 03-17-2011 at 03:43 PM..
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userdel
userdel(1M) System Administration Commands userdel(1M)
NAME
userdel - delete a user's login from the system
SYNOPSIS
userdel [-r] login
DESCRIPTION
The userdel utility deletes a user account from the system and makes the appropriate account-related changes to the system file and file
system.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-r Remove the user's home directory from the system. This directory must exist. The files and directories under the home directory
will no longer be accessible following successful execution of the command.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
login An existing login name to be deleted.
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
2 Invalid command syntax. A usage message for the userdel command is displayed.
6 The account to be removed does not exist.
8 The account to be removed is in use.
10 Cannot update the /etc/group or /etc/user_attr file but the login is removed from the /etc/passwd file.
12 Cannot remove or otherwise modify the home directory.
FILES
/etc/passwd system password file
/etc/shadow system file contain users' encrypted passwords and related information
/etc/group system file containing group definitions
/etc/user_attr system file containing additional user attributes
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
auths(1), passwd(1), profiles(1), roles(1), users(1B), groupadd(1M), groupdel(1M), groupmod(1M), logins(1M), roleadd(1M), rolemod(1M),
useradd(1M), userdel(1M), usermod(1M), passwd(4), prof_attr(4), user_attr(4), attributes(5)
NOTES
The userdel utility only deletes an account definition that is in the local /etc/group, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, and /etc/user_attr file.
file. If a network name service such as NIS or NIS+ is being used to supplement the local /etc/passwd file with additional entries, userdel
cannot change information supplied by the network name service.
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