I have written a set of perl scripts I collectively call roster. I consider them work-in-progress, however I have used them at Laney College for the last several semesters to process downloads of student lists, maintain a central database, add unix, NT and novell-3.xx sccounts (actually, the matter of server type has been generalized by using perl OOP; it's easy to add a new server type), email student lists to teachers (both printable and databaseabls) and handle mid-term adds and drops.
<soapbox> I strongly feel that Debian should support schools. RMS was in a ________ when he came up with his free software philpsophy. Linus Torvalds was attending a _______ at the time he came up with Linux. BSD (and BSD lite) originated in a _______. Sendmail and BIND also come out of a ________. Isn't the answer to all of these "school"? Please, give something back to what is arguably a big part of the community, the schools. Thanks for considering this. </soapbox> I offer up these perl scripts primarily to support schools, altho it's likely easy to use it for other purposes. You can get these scripts. They are GPL. ftp://ftp.laney.edu/pub/jim/roster/roster-0.6.0.tar.gz for the version now in use by Laney College. Too much? look into the newusers program, a part of the shadow passwd suite. If you want, you can get my scripts just to see what I do. -Jim
