Sysadm:User Management - Revision history

Libby: Added notes to basic directories.

2014-02-06T22:46:59Z

Added notes to basic directories.

2013-12-02T20:12:32Z

Altered entry for /etc/auto.home

2013-10-15T21:48:10Z

Commented out possibly superfluous instructions.

2013-10-15T21:36:38Z

2013-10-15T21:34:35Z

2013-10-15T21:32:15Z

Added Changing Passwords.

2013-10-15T21:14:23Z

Added Standard Directories

2013-10-14T21:22:57Z

2013-10-14T21:20:02Z

Undo revision 1201 by Libby (talk)

2013-10-14T21:19:51Z

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 ==Standard Directories==
 As a general rule, the following directories should be created and owned by [user]:chg
-  /home/ftp_out/people/[user]
+  /home/ftp_out/people/[user] #your ftp directory for outside access
-  /home/sandbox/people/[user]
+  /home/sandbox/people/[user] #never backed up
-  /home/source/[user]
+  /home/source/[user]    #put source code here (backed up every day)
-  /raid/chg-[user]
+  /raid/chg-[user]       #data directory
-  /raid/chg-users/[user]
+  /raid/chg-users/[user] #home directory
 ==Changing Passwords==

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   #add an entry for the new user in /etc/auto.home:
-  [user]     -rw,soft        rain:/raid/chg-users/[user]
+  [user]     -vers=3,rw,nolock,soft        rain:/raid/chg-users/[user]
 Save, then:

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 <code>useradd</code> will likely complain about skel files.
+<!--
 On chg-smb:
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 <code>rsync</code> the files/skel stuff from local account to home directory on rain and edit the <code>/etc/passwd</code> file to pull out the "local" part from the <code>/localhome/[user]</code> so you'd be back to having them at <code>/home/[user]</code>.
+-->
   passwd [user]  #or edit the shadow file to copy an existing passwd
   /home/sysadm/bin/push-configs 1

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 On rain:
-  mkdir /raid/chg-users/chg
+  mkdir /raid/chg-users/[user]
-  chown 31111:31111 !$
+  chown [uid]:[gid] !$
 Login to chg-smb.geog.ucsb.edu as chgadmin and use "su" for the following:
   #add an entry for the new user in /etc/auto.home:
-  chg     -rw,soft        rain:/raid/chg-users/chg
+  [user]     -rw,soft        rain:/raid/chg-users/[user]
 Save, then:
   service autofs reload
-  useradd -d /home/chg -u 31111 chg
+  useradd -d /home/[user] -u [uid] [user]
 <code>useradd</code> will likely complain about skel files.
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 <code>rsync</code> the files/skel stuff from local account to home directory on rain and edit the <code>/etc/passwd</code> file to pull out the "local" part from the <code>/localhome/[user]</code> so you'd be back to having them at <code>/home/[user]</code>.
-  passwd chg  #or edit the shadow file to copy an existing passwd
+  passwd [user]  #or edit the shadow file to copy an existing passwd
   /home/sysadm/bin/push-configs 1

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 ==Standard Directories==
 As a general rule, the following directories should be created and owned by [user]:chg
   /home/ftp_out/people/[user]
   /home/sandbox/people/[user]
   /home/source/[user]
   /raid/chg-[user]
 ==Changing Passwords==

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 CHG uses a custom NIS-like script referred to colloquially as G-NIS.
-__FORCETOC__
 ==Summary==
 The two main scripts (push-configs and pull-configs.C6) synchronize certain user account management files, all in /etc/:
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   /home/sysadm/bin/pull-conf.C6 1
 ==Deleting a Samba Account==