Sysadmin/User management
To carry on these procedures, you need root access on Machine/sunjammer.
Sunjammer (aka shell.sugarlabs.org)
Account creation
See Sysadmin/Add shell account.
Editing users and groups
- Run "ldapvi"
- Edit with your favourite $EDITOR, save and exit
- Type "y" to accept changes.
Passwords
The users are supposed to update their password by going to
https://ldap.sugarlabs.org/passwd
Password logins are not permitted on any of our machines. The password is used by other authentication protocols: HTTP, IMAP, SMTP...
We currently don't have single-sign-on on most of our web applications, but users can use our OpenID provider (id.sugarlabs.org).
Removing shell accounts
Use:
system-userdel <user>
Manipulating groups
To add groups:
system-groupadd
To remove groups, there's no script. Simply use "ldapvi" with no arguments.
Password reset
When users have forgotten their password, you can hack the password
information manually with ldapvi. Alternatively, go to the
password web form and type sunjammer's
root password where of the user's old password would normally go.
If the user knows how to use GPG, send them the new password encrypted. In any case, ask them to change their password immediately.'
Accounts on other hosts
NOTE: accounts on Machine/lightwave, Machine/jita and other high-security machines shouldn't be given out lightly.
Account creation
With remote-useradd, you can automate account creation and provisioning on any Sugar Labs host.
Log into sunjammer, become root and type:
remote-useradd <remote host> <username> [<group>...]
Of course, you'll need sudo access on the remote host. There's no need to invoke remote-auth afterwards.
Account removal
remote-userdel <remote host> <username>
Installing user keys to the remote host
remote-auth <remote host> <username> [<remote user>]
See also
- Sysadmin/Add_shell_account -- how to add shell accounts on sunjammer
- Service/Account -- Account request procedure (for users)
- Service/shell -- Shell account rules and details (for users)