[Sussex] Active Directory, Logon Scripts and Linux

[Matthew Macdonald-Wallace]

Quoting Nicholas Butler <nik at reducedhackers.com>:

> Hi Matthew well most of this is straight forward enough but i thought
> Iwould answer the below.
>>
>>
>> This is basically what our current logon script does for the   
>> windows boxes - here come the questions:
>>
>> 1) Can I do this in BASH, or is there an alternative "preferred" method?[1]
> Not really , BASH in this case is ideal since your can do for more
> flexible manipulation of the command environment, its what scripting
> languages are for.
>> 2) If I were to use PHP (coz it's what I know!) - using system   
>> calls to map drives/add to groups etc - would this pose a serious   
>> risk?
> not much but it would probably pose a headache if the
> apache/php/environment was moved , updated.  where as 1 has better
> longevity

Agreed, however the plan would be to run this using PHP-CLI, not mod_php.

>> 3) Are there any tutorials out there that people know of on how to   
>> do this already?[2]
> Loads. but first stop are you on the samba-maillist ?

/me blushes...

ummm, nope. :o(

>
> https://lists.samba.org/mailman/
>
> also heres some links from my own lookups

Thanks, I'll take a look, they look v. interwesting!

M.
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