User Management

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Quattor and QWG templates allow to manage different aspects of user configuration, including :

• Local account creation and modification
• Configuration of authentication methods
• Configuration SSH keys
• Configuration of user privileges (e.g. sudo)

The main NCM components related to user management are :

• ncm-accounts : creation and modification of local accounts
• ncm-authconfig : configuration of authentication methods. Most of the mechanisms supported by authconfig command can be managed by this component.
• ncm-sudo : management of SUDO configuration
• ncm-useraccess : configuration of SSH keys for users and rights to access applications

In addition, QWG Templates provide a template, standard/users/config.tpl that allows efficient creation of users and groups on a large number of machine. Look at template for more information on how to configure it.