Tool to management users in HPUX and Linux

[Margarida Brito]

Hi,

I’m looking for a tool that could centralize the management of users in the servers (HPUX and RedHat).

If anyone knows a nice tool to make this management I would appreciate your help.

Thanks in advance,
MBrito

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

sam and LDAP or NIS would work very well on HP-UX.

Red Hat Ships with a good user manager program. system-config-authentication makes integration with an ldap server or nis very easy.

The hardest choice is deciding which OS on which to host the master server.

HP-UX with shadow passwords add in from software.hp.com might integrate with a Linux master. I have not tested this.

Linux will work with HP-UX as the master as Linux, we have tested that configuration extensively.

The Red Hat Packaging of the LDAP directory server works reasonably well on either Red Hat or HP-UX (diff versions).

One application to do it all? No.

SEP

[John Payne_2]

You could look at using HP SIM to do this. HP SIM will allow you to create custom commands (like useradd, usermod, userdel, for instance), which you can use to run against a number of boxes at once.

You would have to set up each machine, (I don't know your setup, this is easy, but will take either a short time or a little while.) and create the custom tool, but from there you can run the scripts to your heart's desire.

Will is syncronize passwords? No. You would need a tool that creates some sort of directory for that. (LDAP, NIS, some 3rd party SW) If all your want is to be able to create, delete, and occassionally modify the users across all your boxes at once, and don't care about replicating your passwords everywhere, you might try looking into what HP SIM can do for you. http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim