Can one automate adding new users and deleting them?

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2 total messages Started by Joe Rosenfeld Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:24

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Author: Joe Rosenfeld
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 12:24

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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.

Thanks!
Joe

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Joe Rosenfeld			cowboy@trans.csuohio.edu
Automation Librarian           joer@inca.law.csuohio.edu
Cleveland State University
"We look for things ... to make us go!"

Re: Can one automate adding new users and deleting them?

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Author: Rob Francis
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 15:46

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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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