[K12OSN] TeacherTool

[Huck]

put an 'a' in front of all of their numbernames ..or thier 
first/lastname? but their login would change
i.e. 04-111 would become huck04-111
the homedir doesn't need it...
just /etc/passwd  and /etc/passwd-
I believe...and maybe /etc/groups and /etc/groups- ??

can always correct me if wrong =)

I'd of course test with a dummy account if it were me just to check....

--Huck

Liam Marshall wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 12:46, Liam Marshall wrote:
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>>On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 12:12, Huck wrote:
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>>>Posting TeacherTool:
>>>Hopes it's okay to do so...
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>>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
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>>Why would this be?
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>I just discovered what is happening myself, although I don't understand
>why.
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>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.
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>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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