Hello,
in our network we have AD (Win 2003) for user authentication under Windows and NIS (CentOS 5.2) for same under Linux:
# rpm -qf /var/yp filesystem-2.4.0-1.el5.centos ypbind-1.19-8.el5 yp-tools-2.9-0.1 ypserv-2.19-3
I have written a CGI Script to add new users both to AD and NIS and also to create the home dirs at our NetApp-Filer. Unfortunately some steps still have to be made by hand (the sysadmin copy-pastes it from a browser to a shell).
I could skip one manual step (calling yppasswd) if I knew how to generate the passwd string for /var/nis/passwd:
farber:oav3dV4.Mnj/.:10154153:5725:Alexander Farber,jn-05/02,,,,:/home/farber:/bin/bash
Has anybody already figured out, how to do it from Perl? I'm sure there must be some way (smth. with Perl's crypt).
Regards Alex
PS: Here is my script: http://pastebin.com/m46057a70 feel free to modify and use