[wpkg-users] WPKP User Management

[Marco]

Hello,

my "WPKG-Way" to do this would be to make one package per user.
Then you make one profile per host.

Now you can put the user-packages in the profile of the individual hosts.

Everything else can be done inside the package, usually with the "net" 
command. I am sure you could do this with the powershell, too.

There is no sophisticated "check" needed, just execute it "always".

Greetings ...
Marco

On 06.10.2015 10:36, Nils Thiele wrote:
> Hey,
> i was searching for a program to easily manage remote local user
> accounts (Win7, Win8) for system that are not connected to a domain or
> something similar.
> I found nothing i could combine with wpkg so i came up with my own
> solution.
>
> The program is written in python, a compiled version (exe) is quite big
> (8MB) but i didnt notice any problems running this on my system at boot
> and you could always install it on local hdd first before executing it.
>
> The program reads a supplied xml file and compares the users in the xml
> to the local users on the system. it will delete accounts that are not
> in the server list and create accounts that are in the list but not on
> the system. (The forcefull removement of accounts is not activated by
> default)
>
> On first run or if the supplied xml path isnt valid it will create the
> xml itself and add all local accounts to the list.
>
> You can also deactivate or activate users, set expire dates, change
> passwords or force the user to change it iself on first logon and log
> logon dates for the users if you wish to do so.
>
> Managing local groups for accounts and resetting (deleting profile
> folder only) should be implemented over the week.
>
> Even tho the program is quite big in compiled form its very fast (well
> it only parses a xml and executes cmd command and capture their
> output).  I noticed no problem excuting this on every boot (using
> wpkg-gp and execute=Always) even starting it directly from the wpkg share.
>
> Now i was wondering if anyone else is intrested in a tool like this.
> I wrote and tested this on german win7/8.1 systems and the software
> relies on the cmd output of the "net" command. On a german system this
> output is german so it wont work without modifications on a system that
> outputs in a different language.
> But if there is demand i will atleast add support for english output and
> maybe implement support for language files.
>
> Greetings,
> Nils
>

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