[K12OSN] TeacherTool
Liam Marshall
lsrpm at mts.net
Thu Sep 30 12:54:05 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 14:16, cliebow at downeast.net wrote:
> 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
> >
I would love it if someone could modify it for me, if possible. the
idea of using student numbers for their usernames is just too tempting
to pass up. I would dearly love for TeacherTool to troll for usernames
beginning with numbers as well as letters
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