userpkg — installing users from packages
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010If you’re looking after handfuls of computers belonging to armfuls of different companies, you end up going through hoops trying to get your own user(s) installed each time you want access to a new machine.
userpkg aims to make this simpler, by using Debian package management.
Once userpkg is installed on a machine, you can introduce your new admin users as packages. userpkg will take care of choosing an available username, generating a new password, installing ssh keys and setting up sudo rights.
If you have set up your own private repository, you can now automatically upgrade ssh keys across the population of customer machines …
The initial public release of userpkg can be found at http://userpkg.inode.co.nz/. It’s feature-limited at this stage, but will grow; faster if people suggest things to me!