Ah my apologies - when I read your original email I thought you were looking for an open source alternative to the Windows product that ran on Linux (as opposed to an open source alternative for Windows).
I'm not aware of a Windows alternative... -- Brett Johnson simpleroute | 1690 Williston Road | South Burlington, VT 05401 tel: 802-578-3983 | email: [email protected] | web: simpleroute.com On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Bjorn Behrendt <[email protected]> wrote: > if Windows had a usermod command then that solution might work. > For this reason and many others I would rather be managing a linux network, > but the reality is that I need to support Windows 7. > -bj > > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Brett Johnson <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> What if you created a group and added all users to it. Then you could >> create a shared home directory and apply permissions to allow anyone >> in that group to use it. Next, use usermod to change each user's home >> directory to the new shared location. >> >> As unix doesn't lock files that are in use, I don't think there would >> be a huge issue in having them share it in the way described above... >> only thing I can think is that you might hit issues with new file >> creation/permission/ownership and with umask you could force group >> ownership to have full access to the files... >> >> Would that work? >> >> -- >> Brett Johnson >> simpleroute | 1690 Williston Road | South Burlington, VT 05401 >> tel: 802-578-3983 | email: [email protected] | web: simpleroute.com >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Bjorn Behrendt >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I am looking for an opensource alternative to Forensit's User Profile >> > manager, or another commercial one I found was Zap (which at the moment >> > is >> > only windows XP). >> > In windows every user who logs in gets a cached local profile made for >> > them. >> > Microsoft has some overcomplicated methods for managing this, but I >> > don't >> > like them. >> > I am just trying to make it so that every user who logs into the windows >> > machine uses the same user profile. I have been looking for this >> > feature >> > for a while now. I have almost come to the conclusion that there is not >> > an >> > opensoruce version written yet. >> > -bj >> > >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Anthony Carrico >> > <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> On 07/20/2010 08:52 AM, Bjorn Behrendt wrote: >> >> > I just found Forensit's User Profile Manager. They have a feature >> >> > where in Windows you can assign a single profile to a group of users. >> >> > This saves a lot of time and frustration. I would love to find >> >> > (or >> >> > make if i knew how) an OpenSource version. It doesn't even need to >> >> > be >> >> > as fancy, just one check box that forces everyone who logs in to use >> >> > 1 >> >> > profile. >> >> > >> >> > Any Ideas anyone? >> >> >> >> I don't think I know what a Windows User Profile is, I'm assuming it is >> >> something like Unix group ids, or initial homedir skeleton, etc., but >> >> anyway are you looking for something similar to manage accounts on a >> >> unix/linux machine, or an open source tool to actually manage a Windows >> >> installation? >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Anthony Carrico >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Bjorn Behrendt >> > IT Coordinator >> > Mount St. Joseph >> > [email protected] >> > (802) 775-0151 >> > > > > > -- > Bjorn Behrendt > IT Coordinator > Mount St. Joseph > [email protected] > (802) 775-0151 >
