SMC to modify passwords?

Hi Mike,

> I'd like to use SMC to allow operators to modify

> passwords. Is this possible using the "basic" SMC

> installation? Or do I require other modules which

> allow me to do this?

Sun Management Center isn't really built to do this sort of thing, because it doesn't have free-form text input for commands outside a module (unless you build a "Change Password" module). As a monitoring tool it could can watch /etc/passwd for changes and validate and alarm on them:

http://docs.sun.com/source/816-0859/pug2-filewatch.html#998073

...or if you are running password utilities it can run them and watch for errors and notify you:

http://www.halcyoninc.com/products/DatabaseApplications/ScriptRunner/home.html

...but these are more things to ensure your system and apps are running reliably, instead of features that can change the system themselves.

You could hack together a way of doing this (trigger an alarm action that runs a password changing script ) but it would be better to build a module to do it. None of the commercially available modules are made to change passwords... at least not yet :)

Regards,

Aronek

Standard disclaimer: I am an employee of Halcyon (www.HalcyonInc.com)

Aronek at 2007-7-6 13:12:21 >