user-administration

What is a good .Net library for Windows User Administration?

We have a company intranet with staff management functions. I would like to begin automating setup of new staff members, e.g. creating Windows accounts for them, creating their home folders, setting up shares, and the like. When a staff member leaves the company I would like to automatically remove their user. I have been battling to fi...

Framework for administrating users

I'm looking for a framework I can use in my new webproject. The main concern for me is handling my users, therefore I'm on the lookout for a framwork that can handle them for me. I develop in PHP, so preferably that's the language it should use. I would like the framework to take care of new users signing up and I would also like it to ...

C++ add linux user

Hello, Whats the best way to add a user/group in linux using C++ is there a library I can call on? I dont want to start doing things like: fopen("/etc/passwd", "a"); fprintf(tmp, "%s:x:%d:1:%s:/%s/%s:/bin/ksh\n", username, usernumber, commentfield, userdir, username); fclose(tmp); fopen("/etc/shadow", "a"); fprintf(stmp, "%s:*LK*::...

Salting a password - are there better options than using a timestamp?

I'm currently building a couple of ASP.NET MVC 2 sites, and am wondering what my options are for salting a password. With my PHP work, I usually just obtained the timestamp of when a user registered, then appended it to the end of their password string before using SHA1 to hash the entire thing. My instinct is that this approach may no...

Should I extend ASP.NET Security for a public site?

I have a ASP.NET MVC site with a private site administration application secured with ASP.NET sql-backed authorization. I need to add a login for the public site to allow visitors to sign up for an account. I am thinking I should create totally seperate storage for the public site, rather than extend the existing user db and rely on rol...