Can't you make some sort of default profile template with group policies or something like that, and then define the profile through active directory OU's? I haven't touched Windows AD for a while, but I can double check with my friend who's a Windows admin...*shivers*
--Josh On 7/21/2010 11:20 AM, Brett Johnson wrote: > 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 >> -- Josh Smith Information Security & Forensics Rochester Institute of Technology
