James Yale: > Hi, > > I've been playing with Skole a reasonable amount recent, and have put it > into afew small schools near where I am, one of the biggest problems > we're having is the username generation - although the add ldap user > script works well, for the schools I've put Skole into, it generates > really bad usernames :)
What is a bad username? > The ideal solution would just be another field on the webmin page to > specify a username, instead of one being generated (if one wasn't > specified, the username could still be auto-generated?) - that way we > can have usernames the reflect the yeargroup or class name of the > student, for instance '02g3jy' for a student in year 2, class g3 with > the initials jy. So, you want users to change usernames each year - and usernames possibly reused by other persons every year? Personally, I don't think this is a good idea. > I've tried looking at the perl which makes up the webmin module, and > though I've picked up some perl since looking, it seems to be using a > templating system which is beyond me (at the moment anyway). > > What I'm after are any hints as to what exactly needs changing (I'm > looking at ldap-users.pl, EnterManyUsers.tmpl.html and > WebminLdapSkolelinux.pm) and mabye a broad idea of how to go about it, > or possibly to suggest the inclusion of this as a feature in a future > release? Stockholm? -- regards Bjørn Ove Grøtan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
