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Add/Remove users through Windows program

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by lump_16

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Hi,

I'd think there be somethign already out there when I could add/remove users on a UNIX system through a simple Windows program rather than opening up a telnet session to the UNIX system and add/remove them there.

This way only the administrator would have access to the UNIX system but anyone else could add/remove a user without any UNIX privileges.

Thanks,
Brian Wright
http://wright-onthe-web.com

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by cavedweller

Here's one option. Setup remote access from your windows machine to the unix system. You will need to install a windows rsh client and edit the superuser's .rhosts file on the unix machine.

Then, on the windows machine run a rsh script "rsh -n -l root servername 'useradd...'" which uses the 'useradd' unix utility to manage users.

The specific details differ for each unix variety and since you didn't feel like sharing that information it's up to you to figure them out.

by lump_16

That's basically what we do now, access can be given to add/remove user but there's a number of other things the user has access to that they don't need and could even do some damage with I'd imagine.

by lump_16

I've used this before when I was telecomuting with another company. It was nice but I would think that a GUI interface like that would take an increase in the system resoucres on the server.

How much additional load would webin place on the server?

by gazz

If you realy wanted to, you could load eXcursion on the windows box and open a cde/X11 interface to the unix box to add user.

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