Re: Best practice for users/groups on solaris

seph
Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:58:26 -0000

Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org> writes:

>> > On 11/9/2007 10:32 AM, seph wrote:
>> >
>> >> I can''t quite make the virtual resources work the way
I want them to.
>> >> I''d rather not have inapplicable user groups created,
which implies I
>> >> should use virtual groups. But, virtual groups don''t
get realized
>> >> when the user is realized. Which leads me separately realizing
the
>> >> groups, which is a lot of overhead. So I feel like
I''m doing this
>> >> wrong, and fighting the system.
>
> You want nsscache:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/nsscache/

Thank you for the suggestion, but no. I do not want nsscache. I want my
configuration management stuff to manage my local user accounts.

For lack of a cleaner solution, I wrote a perl script to generate the virtual
users, virtual group, and disabled users. Not great, but easy to change later.

seph
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:58:08 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20071109205949.GB21641@hezmatt.org> (Matthew
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