Automatic Account Creation

[Smith, Albert]

>From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com on behalf of Ryan Golhar
>Sent: Tue 9/13/2005 5:01 PM
>To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
>Subject: Automatic Account Creation
>
>

>Hi all,
>
>I need your opinion...
>
>I have a set of linux machines that authenticate users via LDAP.  Their
>home directories are mounted via NFS share.  All the machines are RedHat
>Enterprise 3 Workstations (plus Server for LDAP and NFS)
>
>Anytime a new user comes in and needs an account, they have to see an
>administrator who runs a script that checks the users id against an
>institution wide system.  If they are a valid user within the
>institution, an account is created for them and they get their password,
>ie an entry is created in LDAP for them and a home directory is created.
>
>It works well, but I want to do away with the intermediate step of them
>having to see an administrator.  Ideally, I want them to be able to sit
>down at a machine, and log in using some username that will either
>verify who they are and create the account for them, or they attempt to
>log in using their institution user id and the system sees they aren't a
>user but proceeds to verify who they are and create an account.
>
>Has anyone done anything like this? 
>
>Ryan
>
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I can say in my 15 years I have never seen it, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist I just haven't seen it. And I feel that most administrators would be very leary of such an app as it can be very unsecure.
 
 
Albert Smith 
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
HPCSA, RHCT
Genex Services 
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