[K12OSN] TeacherTool
cliebow at downeast.net
cliebow at downeast.net
Tue Sep 28 19:16:19 UTC 2004
i'd bet eric harrison can make it work.....or Chris Johnson...chiuck
> On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 12:46, Liam Marshall wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 12:12, Huck wrote:
> > > Posting TeacherTool:
> > > Hopes it's okay to do so...
> > >
> > >
> > this works better. Now I get a list of gdm at ws187.ltsp etc....
> > but they are all just sitting at the login waiting. My own username
> > shows up and I can manipulate it, but none of the other users currently
> > logged on
> >
> > Why would this be?
> >
> I just discovered what is happening myself, although I don't understand
> why.
>
> I made each student's username their individual school provided unique
> student number. (ie 04-111 for John Doe) I did it that way to make it
> easy to create 600+ users from an exported file. It had the advantage
> of being unique for everyone and easy for them to remember.
>
> Unfortunately, Linux utilities do not seem to like usernames that begin
> with numbers.
>
> TeacherTool ignores users who's username does not begin with a letter.
> Bummer, Sh**t and other expletives! I shot myself in the foot. I made
> my life easy at the beginning of the year now I can't use TeacherTool
> because of it!!!
>
> Unless someone knows how to correct this issue?
>
> Please
>
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