09-16-2011
How to figure out who created a user account?
Well, I had to open another thread. Long story but I will keep it short. Our client organization is a multinational bio-tech giant. And as it is true with all such giants, things are kind of messy when it comes to maintaining who did what.
Now, my duty is to clean up the mess. One of the few challenges is that there are some accounts lying around on the servers which do not have any authenticity. I need to figure out who created those accounts. We have a user administration team, but as usual they are unaware of these accounts.
Is there any way that I can get to know by which id these accounts were created? Well, I can do a stat on these accounts' home directories and this gives valuable info, but not what I am looking for.
By the way, these servers are RedHat, AIX and Solaris.
If anyone needs any more details let me know.
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lppasswd(1) Apple Inc. lppasswd(1)
NAME
lppasswd - add, change, or delete digest passwords.
SYNOPSIS
lppasswd [ username ]
lppasswd -a [ -g groupname ] username
lppasswd -x username
DESCRIPTION
lppasswd adds, changes, or deletes passwords in the CUPS digest password file, passwd.md5. When run by a normal user, lppasswd will prompt
for the old and new passwords. When run by the super-user, lppasswd can add new accounts (-a username), change existing accounts (user-
name), or delete accounts (-x username) in the digest password file. Digest usernames do not have to match local UNIX usernames.
OPTIONS
lppasswd supports the following options:
-g groupname
Specifies a group other than the default system group.
SECURITY ISSUES
By default, the lppasswd program is not installed to allow ordinary users to change their passwords. To enable this, the lppasswd command
must be made setuid to root with the command:
chmod u+s lppasswd
While every attempt has been made to make lppasswd secure against exploits that could grant super-user privileges to unprivileged users,
paranoid system administrators may wish to use Basic authentication with accounts managed by PAM instead.
SEE ALSO
lp(1), lpr(1),
http://localhost:631/help
COPYRIGHT
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