Re: simplifying user maintenance

["dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com" <dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com>]

> in at least one point, M$ with their Exchange server has a big advantage
> over *nix: you can define users at just one place which gives you much
> more control and eases things a lot.
Yes would have to agree that a gui is provided most likely for this in winblows. 
( when and how is the means to do this without the gui? See the point?)
However the beauty of any Nix or dirivative is that you can roll you own gui 
with you own logic / or others to do exactly the same thing. It is just gui 
programming which is as doable in Nix .. actually more doable however since 
am not a gui programmer per se can't describe all you options. They are however 
extremely huge. 
> Under Unix, I have the adduser script, to create & configure QMail accounts,
> add them to some MySQL database for PHP-based intranet CMS and more.
> 
> Is there a way to ease things and to reduce user maintenance tasks to a 
> minimum?
 i don't use these myself but there are lots of admin programs like webmin and 
i am sure lots others that many here can suggest..
Hope this helps..
Best Regards
dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com