From: lawries@btinternet.com
Date: Thu Aug 28 2003 - 08:47:01 EDT
Admins,
Its some time now since I posted this question, I was looking for a mechanism to send emails automatically when certain user account conditions change. e.g. If an accounts is locked out due to 5 failed login attempts, I wanted an email notification, ideally via the EVM sub-system.
There were no replies regarding the use of EVM for this purpose.
However, there were a number of replies regarding the use of scripts to generate a periodic report on user accounts.
Finally, I went with a suggestion from Mark Deiss who said ...
>
> You can grab module bb-tcb.tgz off www.deadcat.net. This package is meant to
> work as a monitoring module with the Big Brother(BB) or Big Sister(BS)
> packages. It can handle checking user accounts for a variety of security
> levels and OS's. It is a bit of overkill has there are functions that are
> meant to deal with other operating systems. You will have to do some
> modifications as it works with the BB/BS packages to set operating system
> dependencies. Basically, any commands of form: $UPPER_CASE_VARIABLE_NAME
> will need to be set to the Tru64 command definition (or the command's
> specific option list).
>
So I took this script and reworked it to provide a color coded HTML output file which reports on the condition of all user accounts. Obviously I can't provide an example of the output to this forum but if anyone is interested in viewing the output and receiveing a copy of this script please email me direct at:
Thanks to all who replied with suggestions and scripts of their own. Kind regards.
Lawrie.
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