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Since the secretary and/or administrators maintain a list of enrolled
students, it makes sense to use this information to manage users on
external servers. This would allow a student, once enrolled, to have
his/her login to workstations, email accounts, and other school based
resources added from this information.
This system consists of 2 parts:
- Buttons that run scripts to copy the user information (ie. name, student number
and password) and/or account changes (reset password, lock or unlock
account) to an account on another server.
- A script that runs periodically on the external server, to
take this user information and add missing user accounts on the
external server or reset password or lock/unlock the account.
- Click the 'Add' button beside 'External Users'. It will list all
students and staff and then below that, in bold, say 'File Copy
Complete'. The user file has now been copied to the external
server. In 10-15 minutes, any new users will have accounts on the
external server. The time it will take for the accounts to appear
depends on the time your system administrator has set on the external
server between checks for the user file.
- Click the 'Reset' button beside 'External Users'. It will show a
list of all students with checkboxes to allow passwords to be rest or
to lock or unlock user accounts. Check boxes based on the user and
what you want to do. Then click any of the 'Continue' buttons (it
doesn't matter which one), and the next page will show 'File Copy
Complete' when the reset file has been copied to the external
server. Again, this will take the same time as the 'Add' process to
occur on the external server.
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2010-07-18