Authentication Server Tasks
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These are common tasks on the Authentication server.
All of these tasks can be completed on auth.sshchicago.org or auth02.sshchicago.org, which are master-master replicas of each other.
Resetting a user's password
See Member management in LDAP and FreeIPA
Getting a kerberos token
Before you do anything, run kinit to get a Kerberos token.
$ kinit Password for cswingler@SSHCHICAGO.ORG:
Renaming a user
If you have a user named "ocat" and you want to rename him to have the UID "oscar":
$ ipa user-mod --rename=oscar ocat ----------------------- Modified user "ocat" ----------------------- User login: oscar First name: Oscar Last name: Cat Home directory: /home/ocat Login shell: /bin/sh Email address: oscar@cats.cat UID: 184001250 GID: 184001250 Account disabled: False Password: True Member of groups: sshc-members Indirect Member of group: unix_users Kerberos keys available: True