[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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