On Thu, 17 Jul 1997 12:12:36 CDT Brian K Servis ([EMAIL PROTECTED] ) wrote:
> Here at Purdue the Engineering Computer Network staff have developed a > very awesome account management package called ACMAINT. They currently > use it to manage all the accounts and machines on the network.(Over > 13,000 users with over 336,000 accounts on approx. 800 Sun's, 120 > HP's, and handful of IBM's, SGI, etc!) From any machine on the > network you can change any account on any other machine via a client > server arrangement. The source and doc are in > ftp://ftp.ecn.purdue.edu/pub/ACMAINT/. I don't think it has been > ported to Linux but can be built on 20 different *nix's including > BSD4.2, BSD4.3 & BSDPOSIX so it shouldn't be to difficult to add > support for Linux. It is very customizable. I believe it was written > in tcl/tk and uses an oracle database. All the developers have since > left the network and so the code is for the most part frozen. There is > a mailing list mentioned in the README's which is still active and the > route to get support. I have used it on the computers at school and > was very impressed but have not tried to get it to run on my single > personal Linux box at home(don't see much point). I just thought I > would mention this to the list in case someone would be interested in > taking a look at it. I've added it in "Work Needing and Prospective Packages" as a wanted package. Phil. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .