ndy Figueroa ha scritto: > I, too, am a one-man IT department for a small school. > > me too; bad job, ain't it? > With the included Linux/Unix tools, additional tools don't seem to be > called > for. Here is the script that I use to populate a fresh install of > Edubuntu > with users. This only shows two users, but my real script is 153 of > users > long. it's just a bash/shell script that you run from the command > line (as > root, or with sudo, of course): > > #!/bin/sh > useradd -m -G scanner,plugdev,audio,video,cdrom,games,fuse -s > /bin/bash cfreeman > useradd -m -G scanner,plugdev,audio,video,cdrom,games,fuse -s /bin/bash > jbfreeman > echo "Run 'chpasswd < pw2' to establish initial password for new user." > > The second file (pw2) is just a text file listing users and their > passwords > like this: > > jbfreeman:notrealpw1 > cfreeman:notrealpw2 > > All this doesn't do is use a machine generated password. The problem > I have > with machine generated passwords is that the students cannot remember > them. > So, I use a password scheme they can remember, but not guess. > > I use quite a similar way, but using webmin: I have a lab to manage in my local school (k12) with about 100 users, and the whole institute website, for which I must create all students' and teachers' accounts (1000 ca.). I get a file from the school office database via sql and I work on it with openoffice calc to get a csv file that I load to the website's cms and to my lab pcs via webmin. (If you are interested I can post an example) I find webmin quite useful for this purpose, i.e. manage users via uploading a file. As for the passwords, the same problem: what sort of scheme have you developed?
Antonello Facchetti Italy Ubuntu 8.04 lab -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
