Edubuntu additions for small schools

[Mika Pflüger]

Hi,

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:37:47 +0200
Jorge Bianquetti <jbianquetti at gmail.com> wrote:
> Why not use a LDAP backend? Central user management is always a good
> thing
That's true if you have the possibility to have one server always
running - a server to which all clients can connect. Unfortunately this
is not always the case.
However, you are right that it usually pays back quickly to have ldap
for user management.

I wrote the script as some people seem to use scripts that wouldn't
match my own needs (if I was forced to do user management "by hand").

Cheers,

Mika

 
> 2009/6/18 Mika Pflüger <mail at mikapflueger.de>
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > Am Mon, 25 May 2009 11:26:57 -0400
> > schrieb Andy Figueroa <figueroa at andyfigueroa.us>:
> > > I, too, am a one-man IT department for a small school.
> > >
> > > With the included Linux/Unix tools, additional tools don't seem
> > > to be called for.  Here is the script that I use to populate a
> > > fresh install of Edubuntu with users.  This only shows two users,
> > > but my real script is 153 of users long.  it's just a bash/shell
> > > script that you run from the command line (as root, or with sudo,
> > > of course):
> > >
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > useradd -m -G scanner,plugdev,audio,video,cdrom,games,fuse
> > > -s /bin/bash cfreeman useradd -m -G
> > > scanner,plugdev,audio,video,cdrom,games,fuse -s /bin/bash
> > > jbfreeman echo "Run 'chpasswd < pw2' to establish initial
> > > password for new user."
> > >
> > > The second file (pw2) is just a text file listing users and their
> > > passwords like this:
> > >
> > > jbfreeman:notrealpw1
> > > cfreeman:notrealpw2
> > I thought it might be annoying to have to maintain two files and the
> > idea of using OpenOffice sounded quite nice, so I created a little
> > python script to add Users from a CSV-file. You can find it at:
> > http://www.mikapflueger.de/batchadd/
> >
> > It would be nice if you could test this script (back
> > up /etc/passwd, /etc/group and /etc/shadow first!) and tell me if I
> > missed something.
> > I think the issue with group memberships (groups
> > scanner,plugdev,audio,video,cdrom,games,fuse) calls for a system
> > wide solution: Just add
> > gdm;*;*;Al0000-2400;scanner,plugdev,audio,video,cdrom,games,fuse
> > to /etc/security/group.conf and all users logging in through gdm
> > will be granted membership in all necessary groups.
> > However, if this is not a solution for you, I could add a function
> > to the script to provide a list of groups membership should be
> > granted to.
> >
> > Any comments very appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Mika
> >
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