08-15-2013
Dear Manivasagam,
Does this mean that you have several people sharing a user account? If so, I could see that if one user changes the password and the others don't find out then they could suspend the account. You could issue them with their own account each to get past that one. If they really really really need to share the account, you could write a sudo rule that allows them to switch user to it and code their .profile to do so, then exit on the return. It would also give you some logging of who is using the system.
If these are already individual accounts, I'm a bit confused why if the user chooses their own when the password naturally expires, that it locks. Do they just not remember that they have changed it?
Can you explain more what is actually happening?
Robin
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NAME
eurephiadm-users - User management module
SYNOPSIS
eurephiadm users --list|-l [-S|--sort <sort keys>]
eurephiadm users --show|-s [-i|--uid <user id>] [-u|--username <user name>] [-l|-|-lastlog] [-L|--lastlog-details] [-a|--attempts]
[-b|--blacklist]
eurephiadm users --activate|-a [-i|--uid <user id>] [-u|--username <user name>]
eurephiadm users --deactivate|-d [-i|--uid <user id>] [-u|--username <user name>]
eurephiadm users --add|-A [-u|--username <user name>] [-P|--password <plain text password>] [-C|--certid <certificate ID>] [-D|--digest
<certificate SHA1 digest>] [-c|--certfile <certificate file>] [-2|--pkcs12]
eurephiadm users --delete|-D [-i|--uid <user id>] [-u|--username <user name>]
eurephiadm users --password|-p [-i|--uid <user id>] [-u|--username <user name>]
eurephiadm users [-h|--help [<mode>]]
DESCRIPTION
eurephiadm users manages eurephia user accounts. It provides an interface for listing, creating new, modify and delete user accounts.
MODES
Available modes:
-l | --list
[-S|--sort <sort keys>]
List all user accounts. Providing -S|--sort and a sort key will define the sort order of the list. Valid sort keys are:
uid - user ID
username - User name belonging to the user account
activated - When the user account was activated
deactivated - When the user account was deactivated
lastaccess - When the user account was last used
-s | --show
[-i|--uid <user id>] [-u|--username <user name>] [-l|--lastlog] [-L|--lastlog-details] [-a|--attempts] [-b|--blacklist]
Show user account details. --uid or --username are required. The other arguments only defined which kind of information to show.
-a | --activate
[-i|--uid <user id>] [-u|--username <user name>]
Activate a user account. --uid or --username is required.
-d | --deactivate
[-i|--uid <user id>] [-u|--username <user name>]
Deactivate a user account. --uid or --username is required.
-A | --add
[-u|--username <user name>] [-P|--password <plain text password>] [-C|--certid <certificate ID>] [-D|--digest <certificate SHA1
digest>] [-c|--certfile <certificate file>] [-2|--pkcs12]
Add a new user account. --username is required. If you want to assign a password for the new user account via the command line,
provide the password with --password.
To associate this user account against an already regstistered certificate, it can be done by either refering to the certificate ID
in eurephia using --certid or providing the certificate SHA1 digest/fingerprint to --digest.
A brand new certificate can be registered and linked to the user account directly if you have access to the certificate file. The
file can be in either PEM/DER format or PKCS#12. Use --certfile to indicate the certificate file to extract the information from
and --pkcs12 if it is a PKCS#12 file.
-D | --delete
[-i|--uid <user id>] [-u|--username <user name>]
Delete a user account. --uid or --username is required.
-p | --password
[-i|--uid <user id>] [-u|--username <user name>]
Change password on a user account. --uid or --username is required.
-h | --help
[<mode>]
Show a help screen. Without any arguments, all modes are listed. Providing a mode will show more information about the chosen
mode.
SEE ALSO
eurephiadm(7), eurephiadm-certs(7)
AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 2008-2010 David Sommerseth <dazo@users.sourceforge.net>
David Sommerseth July 2010 eurephiadm users(7)