[olug] Scripting

[Klaruz]

You may want to take a look at proftpd with ldap support. You'd have the
added advantage of being able to manager your users in more of a 'real'
database (OpenLDAP), and not have to worry about them having regular access
to the system through any other way. You could even make them share the same
uid/gid if you had to. I'm not sure what type of system you're setting up,
but there are alot of options with ldap. Oh yah, and I'd go with proftpd
anyway, it's way fast, and very configurable, and there aren't tons of
security holes that show up every month.

-- Daniel


----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Embury" <drazak at materiamagica.com>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 2:57 PM
Subject: [olug] Scripting


> I'm scripting a system where about 3k users will get added/deleted to a
> RedHat 6.2 system several times a week.
>
> Right now I have a perl script that just uses system() to shell out to the
> useradd command, and then passwd to set the password.  This works fine,
> but is painfully slow.  I think I might need to generate the passwd and
> shadow file manually using crypt() or something.  Can someone provide an
> overview of how this works on RedHat and any problems I might run into?
>
> For example,
>
> How do I tell if /etc/shadow is using MD5 passwords? What problems are PAM
> going to cause me? Can I remove shadow passwords somehow from the system
> and just use standard unix passwords?  (I dont need them in this system,
> all accounts are ftp only).
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> _Drew
>
>
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