[ZendTo] Admin user account disable

Jules Field Jules at Zend.To
Fri Mar 6 09:45:21 GMT 2020


Rahul,

Just to confirm what Chris said, ZendTo does not create any local users 
or default admin accounts at all.

Jules.

On 06/03/2020 09:32, Chris Venter via ZendTo wrote:
> Hi Rahul
>
> As far as I am aware zendto does not create any local users when 
> installing the system, there are no default admin accounts created 
> upon install.
>
> Chris
>
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 at 08:03, Rahul Kumar via ZendTo <zendto at zend.to 
> <mailto:zendto at zend.to>> wrote:
>
>     i don't think the AD has this admin user enabled at their end.
>
>     still i will check but is there somewhere in zendto application
>     this particular user "admin" exists ? i checked everywhere but
>     didn't found.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Rahul Kumar
>     Contact(M): 9958664330
>
>
>     On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 7:52 PM Ken Etter via ZendTo
>     <zendto at zend.to <mailto:zendto at zend.to>> wrote:
>
>         Or if the admin is in a different OU from standard users
>         (hopefully), you could just change the BaseDN setting to only
>         use the OU for standard users.  That is what I do here.
>
>         Ken
>         >>> Massimo Forni via ZendTo <zendto at zend.to
>         <mailto:zendto at zend.to>> 3/5/2020 7:25 AM >>>
>         Just disable that user in AD
>         *From:*ZendTo <zendto-bounces at zend.to
>         <mailto:zendto-bounces at zend.to>> *On Behalf Of *Rahul Kumar
>         via ZendTo
>         *Sent:* giovedì 5 marzo 2020 13:03
>         *To:* Jules Field <Jules at zend.to <mailto:Jules at zend.to>>
>         *Cc:* Rahul Kumar <rahulkumar.imps at gmail.com
>         <mailto:rahulkumar.imps at gmail.com>>; ZendTo Users
>         <zendto at zend.to <mailto:zendto at zend.to>>
>         *Subject:* Re: [ZendTo] Admin user account disable
>         Issue is my zendto is authentication through AD users but
>         somehow admin userid is also working whose password i am
>         unable to change or delete that user admin.
>
>         Thanks,
>         Rahul Kumar
>         Contact(M): 9958664330
>         On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 4:08 PM Jules Field <Jules at zend.to
>         <mailto:Jules at zend.to>> wrote:
>
>             On 05/03/2020 09:37, Rahul Kumar via ZendTo wrote:
>
>                 Hi ,
>                 please check te error below,
>                 /opt/zendto/bin# ./deleteuser.php admin
>                 PHP Notice:  Undefined index: SERVER_PORT in
>                 /opt/zendto/lib/NSSDropbox.php on line 41
>                 PHP Notice:  Undefined index: HTTPS in
>                 /opt/zendto/lib/NSSDropbox.php on line 42
>                 PHP Notice:  Undefined index: HTTPS in
>                 /opt/zendto/lib/NSSDropbox.php on line 48
>                 PHP Notice:  Undefined index: SERVER_NAME in
>                 /opt/zendto/lib/NSSDropbox.php on line 48
>                 PHP Notice:  Undefined index: REQUEST_URI in
>                 /opt/zendto/lib/NSSDropbox.php on line 48
>
>             Don't worry about them, they are harmless.
>
>
>                 Failed: Aborting deleting user admin as that user does
>                 not exist
>
>             So there isn't any local user (in ZendTo) called "admin".
>
>             ZendTo doesn't automatically create *any* accounts of any
>             sort when you install it. There are no "default admin
>             credentials" or anything like that.
>
>             If you want to delete an account called "admin", you first
>             need to find where it is. You have just proved it's not
>             part of ZendTo itself.
>
>             Cheers,
>             Jules.
>
>
>
>                 Thanks,
>                 Rahul Kumar
>                 Contact(M): 9958664330
>                 On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 1:19 PM Chris Venter via ZendTo
>                 <zendto at zend.to <mailto:zendto at zend.to>> wrote:
>
>                     Hi Rahul
>                     Are you talking about a local admin account
>                     created for the Zend.To install? If so have a look
>                     for the deleteuser script and remove the local
>                     account using that not sure on the version but the
>                     syntax example on my install is:
>                     /opt/zendto/bin$ ./deleteuser
>
>                       usage:
>
>                        ./deleteuser '<username>'
>                     Hope that helps.
>                     On Thu, 5 Mar 2020 at 07:33, Rahul Kumar via
>                     ZendTo <zendto at zend.to <mailto:zendto at zend.to>> wrote:
>
>                         hi Jules,
>                         i checked , config showing me
>                         this  'authAdmins'       =>
>                         array('taraf','trou','jone','balla','bickel','holcom'),
>                         but my concern is *admin *username which i
>                         need to disable, i don't see any username
>                         "*admin*" in config files so what could i do?
>
>                         Thanks,
>                         Rahul Kumar
>                         Contact(M): 9958664330
>                         On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 3:37 PM Jules Field
>                         <Jules at zend.to <mailto:Jules at zend.to>> wrote:
>
>                             Rahul,
>
>                             My mistake, sorry.
>                             The setting is called 'authAdmins'. So you
>                             want to change that line in preferences.php to
>                             'authAdmins' => array(),
>
>                             Don't forget the trailing comma on the end!
>
>                             Cheers,
>                             Jules.
>                             On 04/03/2020 04:15, Rahul Kumar wrote:
>
>                                 Hi Jules,
>                                 Thanks for sharing the advise, i would
>                                 like to go for it but for the moment i
>                                 need first to disable the admin login.
>                                 when i checked the config files, there
>                                 is no such settings for "adminUsers" ,
>                                 could you please suggest what i can do
>                                 next.
>                                 Thanks,
>                                 Rahul
>                                 Thanks,
>                                 Rahul Kumar
>                                 Contact(M): 9958664330
>                                 On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 5:25 PM Jules
>                                 Field <Jules at zend.to
>                                 <mailto:Jules at zend.to>> wrote:
>
>                                     Rahul,
>
>                                     I would strongly advise that you
>                                     build a new server/VM running the
>                                     latest version of ZendTo. There
>                                     are a lot of new features and
>                                     improvements that your users might
>                                     well want to use.
>
>                                     But to answer your question, look
>                                     in preferences.php. There is a
>                                     setting called "adminUsers". Set
>                                     that to
>                                         'adminUsers' => array(),
>                                     and that will mean you have no
>                                     ZendTo administrators. Everything
>                                     should work fine like that. You
>                                     will just need to temporarily add
>                                     whatever username is an
>                                     administrator when you need to
>                                     carry out any admin tasks such as
>                                     looking at the global list of
>                                     drop-offs, or unlocking users who
>                                     have been locked out for having
>                                     failed to many username/password
>                                     checks in a row.
>
>                                     Cheers,
>                                     Jules.
>                                     On 03/03/2020 05:21, Rahul Kumar
>                                     via ZendTo wrote:
>
>                                         Hi ,
>                                         i have zendto  Version 4.11 
>                                         running but i want to disable
>                                         the Admin user account as it
>                                         is a security issue for us. we
>                                         already authenticating users
>                                         through ldap.
>                                         could someone please help in
>                                         this ?
>
>                                         Thanks,
>                                         Rahul Kumar
>                                         Contact(M): 9958664330
>
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then wintry showers. Moderate or poor, occasionally good later.

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