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- From: francisr@stupid.ucs.indiana.edu (Rob Francis)
- Subject: Re: Can one automate adding new users and deleting them?
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- References: <1992Dec17.122412.18818@news.csuohio.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:46:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec17.122412.18818@news.csuohio.edu> cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu (Joe Rosenfeld) writes:
- >
- >Greetings:
- >
- >We are going to implement a mail transport agent on a NeXT, most likely,
- >and we are a University, whose enrollment changes by the quarter, or more
- >often. The thing which would cinch our deal is a method to automate the
- >adding and deletion of users on a regular basis, perhaps through the use
- >of a text file to be read from.
- >
- >Can this be done? Is there another way to accomplish this goal? This is
- >muy importante to us, and if anyone can give us an answer, we would be
- >most appreciative.
-
- Well, we've done something that takes care of half of this problem her
- at IU. We have public clusters of NeXT that any valid IU student may
- have an account on. We developed an application that allows any
- person with a valid account on our mainframes to create a NeXT account
- on the fly. The user sits down in front of the NeXT, fires up the
- account generating program (via a guest account with restricted access
- to only the console) and then their window manager becomes another
- login panel, asking for their mainframe username and password. If
- they get it right, it creates a NeXT account immediatly. Otherwise,
- it gives up after three tries and logs them out.
-
- We'd like to put it in the public domain at some point, but we need to
- do some clean up first...
-
- Account Deletion is a beast I haven't really tackled yet. It's
- pending....
-
- -rob
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- Rob Francis Unix Systems Specialist, Indiana University
- francisr@indiana.edu (812)855-0327
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