Re: [webmin-l] Password Maintenance and Updates

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 29/Jun/2007 06:30 Mark Khan wrote ..
> Hello again:
>                 Sorry to keep bombarding this group with my problems, but
> I just started this job and have been thrown into Webmin head first. I
> have purchased and read both books and I can't seem to come up with a procedure
> using Webmin to maintain passwords in my environment. Here is the scenario
> I am facing:
> Various releases of Webmin were deployed before I was hired. Each system
> had already had it's password files updated manually by the SA's, before
> I was hired. Once Webmin was deployed they did not read the documentation
> on how Webmin updates UID's and GID's. Subsequently, we have many conflicts
> in the systems password files. 
> 
> What I would like to do is create a master password file for each of the
> cluster groupings of systems I have created  on my primary Webmin server.
> Then when I need to add or delete a user to a particular cluster I would
> do it on the primary Webmin server and then cluster copy it to the appropriate
> cluster. So far I have found that I can do a batch load of the password
> file at the system level but not at the cluster level. Is what I am asking
> for possible? has anyone ever encountered this situation before? If so
> could you please pass along how you handled it? Finally, is there a third
> party software module or program that anyone knows about that can help
> me resolve this mess.

Hi Mark,

So are you trying to sync Webmin users between multiple systems? Or it is 
Unix users that you are trying to sync? In the former case, this can be
done by copying across the right files, such as /etc/webmin/webmin.acl and
/etc/webmin/miniserv.users, and all the /etc/webmin/*/*.acl files.

Let us know more details on what you are trying to do though, so I can
provide a more complete answer ..

 - Jamie