Account maintainance commands
Within commands below, Don't take square brackets, angle brackets and triple-dots literally:
- < This > should be replaced with your own info - including the angle brackets
- [This] is optional parts of the command - including the square brackets
- ... means "repeat ad libitum" - leave it out or add more stuff similar to that right before the dots
Normal users
Create new account
- Pick a username:
- Start with the initials of the user
- Include also second letter of either first name or surname
- If necessary, add third letter of first name or surname (or a trailing number)
- The result should be practical (short and related to the name of the user) but must not be a nickname or initals: A username is comparable to the shape of a key - the user may get confused in every day use if it looks like a toy or jewelery!
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Create the account:
localadduser <username> <fullname> <cellphone> [<otherphone>] <addresshint> [<addresshint>...]
- Full name: Full name (Capital and small letters allowed, as is space and special characters, but no comma!)
- Cellphone: Cellphone number including country code but without other spaces. Like this: +45 40843136
- Addresshint: local part of email address, followed by @-sign, and optionally followed by mailgroup. Like these: jonas@ js@pool_of_maildomains
- Send an email based on [[intro/email.en]] skeleton:
- If an ouside working email address has been provided, then use that as recipient. Alternatively use the contact person of the new user (teacher, boss etc.) as recipient.
- Add <username>@example.com as Cc:
- Add hostmaster@example.com as Bcc:
- Add teknik@lists.example.com as Reply-To:
- Send a cellphone text message based on [[intro/sms.en]], adding the the password spit out from the command above.
TODO: Automate more: sending out sms and email should happen automatically.
Attach groups to account
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Attach the account to relevant organisational groups:
(user=<username>; for group in <group1> [<group2> ...]; do adduser $user $group; done)
Add/replace additional email addresses to account
Use the following command to change hinting of an existing user account:
chfn <username>
Update email address info in smtp server
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Run this command:
localmaildomainprepare
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Check and correct warnings, and repeat above command.
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When satisfied with result, run this command:
localmaildomainupdate
FIXME: localmaildomainupdate should email diff file to postmaster@example.com
Extend password lifespan
If a user exceeds password lifespan, and still remembers the old password, the lifespan can be extended slightly to open a new window for changing it:
localresetpasswdexpiry <username>
TODO: The above command should ideally emit an sms and/or email rewuesting the user to immediately change password
Reset password
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Reset the actual password using the following command:
localresetpasswd <username>
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Send a cellphone text message similar to the one for creating a new account.
TODO: The above command should ideally emit an sms and/or email rewuesting the user to immediately change password
Warn about password expiry
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Notice log messages warning about passwords soon expiring
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Send a cellphone textmessage with the following content:
You must change your password - it soon expires! Read how and why at the web page http://[[template id=supporthost]]/intro
Or in danish:
Du skal ændre din adgangskode - den udløber snart! Læs hvordan og hvorfor på websiden http://[[template id=supporthost]]/intro
TODO: Rewrite as automated syslog-ng plugin or cron script passing the message to an sms gateway.
Locate users with short password lifespan
(group=<gruppe>; echo $group:; for user in `members $group`; do chage -l $user|egrep -q '^Maximum:\[[:blank:]]*[0-9]{2}$' && printf $user'\t' && chage -l $user|egrep '^Password Expires:'; done)
