{"id":2743,"date":"2014-11-17T09:55:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T16:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jumpcloud.com\/blog\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2024-11-05T17:58:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T22:58:43","slug":"6-ways-to-manage-users-on-cloud-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jumpcloud.com\/blog\/6-ways-to-manage-users-on-cloud-servers","title":{"rendered":"6 Ways to Manage Users on Cloud Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Connecting Cloud Servers to your AD or LDAP Store <\/strong>Managing users on cloud servers is a painful process. If you have more than just a few servers, ensuring that the right<\/i> people have the right<\/i> access<\/a> gets complicated\u2014fast. For instance, at any given moment IT admins must ensure that every server is covered, any and all changes are logged, and all users are in sync with the core user store all at once\u2014and all this must be managed on an on-going basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are a number of approaches admins can take to manage users. We highlight the pros and cons of some of the most common approaches, below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manually managing cloud server accounts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Many IT admins choose to manually create, manage, and delete users on their cloud servers. IT admins are notified (generally via email) of who requires what access to the cloud servers and they will manually provision and manage users on the cloud servers<\/a>. This entails the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n