[K12OSN] Bulk User Add

Mark Sarria mes4294 at lausd.k12.ca.us
Fri May 27 22:06:34 UTC 2005


Yeahh.. I ran the scripts successfully, to add bulk users - great job on the
scripts guys. It worked like a charm. I noticed that the script also
generates a unique password for each user. Is there a way to force a user to
change password at next login. I can see how to do individual users but how
about bulk. Next semester I will be adding 3000 users, I would hate to have
to enter each user one by one to allow password change.

--mark



-----Original Message-----
From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf
Of Mark Sarria
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 9:00 AM
To: 'David Trask'
Cc: 'Huck'; 'Support list for opensource software in schools.'
Subject: RE: [K12OSN] Bulk User Add

I knew it was already on my server, I was going crazy looking for it
yesterday, thanks for the jumpstart. 

Question - In my network environment, we use a combination of last name and
student Id numbers. To be more specific, we use the last four letters of a
students name and the last four numbers of their student ID, and to make
sure that only that student logs in to change there password, we assign the
default password as their date of birth. So for example a student:
First Name: Sally
Last Name: Jones
Student ID: 88781234

Her user name would be
Username: Jone1234
Password: 101384

Is there a way to accomplish this using the Bulk add user scripts. Or do you
have alternatives that you can throw my way on how to format user accounts.
As you know in this type of environment with over 3000 students, assigning
every student the same default password, is just not safe and will cause
intense administrative work load.

--mark

-----Original Message-----
From: David Trask [mailto:dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us] 
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 4:27 PM
To: mes4294 at lausd.k12.ca.us
Cc: 'Huck'; 'Support list for opensource software in schools.'
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Bulk User Add

go here and get the smbldap-installer....untar it and you'll find a couple
in there ( http://web.vcs.u52.k12.me.us/linux/smbldap )  The docs (near
the bottom) explain all the different ways you can use it.

David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Coordinator
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcs.u52.k12.me.us
(207)923-3100


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