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[Mark Williamson]

Hello,

I did make Freeside add users to a stand alone machine..    That was
installing SSH to the local machine..  then giving the root acounts
public key to the Freeside user... etc    having an entry in .shost for
the localmachine..  and yes very inportant when creating the SSH key use
no phases.. so that you machine can log straight through without
prompts..     Next be careful..  if you manage to get that to work.. 
Freeside will wipeout your passwd and your shadows files..  just leaving
the added user in the files.. so there will also be a need for a hack
for the svc_acct.export file in the freeside/bin dir.. so the  it will
not totaly replace the passwd file..   I just modified the code so that
I had a preserved part of the passwd and shadows files..

Just be carefull if you follow these instructions though..  the secuity
of your machine when it is online could be compermised, so only use for
testing and learning..  that's what I done..

Cheers
Mark


Jay wrote:
> 
> So, it is not feasible to run FreeSide on the same machine that it will
> add users to for testing purposes? This will not be the architecture of
> any final implementation, however for testing, it would be nice to be able
> to add users at localhost. This way, I don't have to sacrafice two machines
> for testing.
> 
> ~Jay
> 
> On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Ivan Kohler wrote:
> 
> > DON'T RUN FREESIDE ON A MACHINE WITH USER ACCOUNTS!!!
> >
> > That said, if you want Freeside to add users to REMOTE machines, you need
> > to follow the directions at the bottom of htdocs/docs/export.html.
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 04:45:42PM -0700, Jay wrote:
> > >
> > > Here's a new one. When I go to add a user account via the FreeSide system,
> > > it is added to the PostgreSQL database, but never added to the system. The
> > > web browser just hangs for about 5 minutes, then times out with a no data
> > > error. During that 'time out', if I do a 'ps auxwww' I see the ssh useradd
> > > command hanging; it looks like ssh is never able to connect to
> > > root at localhost to add the user. After it times out, if I sumbit the same
> > > data again, it tells me that the username is already in use. Then, if I
> > > got back to the main menu and browse the database, it shows all of the
> > > users there, but still they were never entered into the password file.
> > >
> > > Any sugguestions about how to get ssh to complete the process? Thanks. :)
> > >
> > > ~Jay