Labs Spotlight: Local User Management

(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

(trying to drum up some nice blog traffic)

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/a1a33778-88b7-452a-9133-c955812f8910/entry/labs_spotlight_local_user_management63?lang=en

-Zak

(imported comment written by cstoneba)

very cool. It’s nice when real shortcomings of the tool get resolved.

One question though. The pulledown for “select Local User’s Group”, is that list populated from the actual groups on your target endpoint(s), or is it just the builtin Windows groups (Adminstrators, Users, etc) ?

(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

currently just built in, but there is an option to specify specific groups

(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Trying this out as it would be very useful for me. My test PC is failing at the below when attempting to reset a password.

Action Script Execution Detail

Completed parameter “OPENSSL_FOLDER” = “{pathname of parent folder of client}\openSSL\bin”

Failed parameter “OPENSSL_FOLDER” = “{pathname of parent folder of client}\openSSL\bin”

delete __createfile

delete “{parameter “OPENSSL_FOLDER”}\dat64.ssl”

// Match encrypted string to client

(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Seems to be a duplicate "parameter “OPENSSL_FOLDER” = “{pathname of parent folder of client}\openSSL\bin” ", which probably causes an error. I will fix this, but in the mean time you can remove that line by hand.

Let me know if that doesn’t fix the problem.

-Zak

(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)

Zak,

I have used Local User Management dashboard successfully do a number of password changes. While it is a great start, it does have some pain points. The ability to multi-select, target groups, and filter would be excellent.

Bonus for advanced options such as the ability to choose OpenSSL parameters such as cypher used, bit strength, etc.

Thanks,

Jon