The Userify shim creates users, manages sudo permissions, etc based on the user accounts that you've configured in the Userify web console or through the API. It wakes up once every ten seconds or so, checks for things to do, and goes back to sleep.
The shim is designed to be lightweight and easy to integrate and customize into Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, Chef, Puppet, bash, and CloudInit via the Userify dashboard, which automates the installation for you.
The Userify shim is designed to have minimal working requirements (curl, any version of Python, the Linux useradd command, and sudo.) These basics are built-in to most Linux distributions including Debian, Alma, Rocky, Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, SLES, Devuan, Gentoo, etc. (Linux distributions that use BusyBox, such as Alpine, are not currently supported, but if you have this as a requirement please get in touch.)
- Create /opt/userify and credentials file in it (creds.py)
- Creates an uninstall script at /opt/userify/uninstall.sh
- Kicks off shim between every 10 and 180 seconds (set by the server)
- Sets the shim to automatically start on boot
- The shim itself (the python script) automatically syncs user accounts.
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