Re: [Koha] Handling student worker accounts

2016-06-08 Thread Elaine Bradtke
If you are going to create a shared login, change the password every semester. Otherwise, you're leaving a backdoor open for anyone who has the password from previous semesters. We get volunteers, interns, etc. coming through. I set up a basic account, and if they're here for a known time frame,

Re: [Koha] Handling student worker accounts

2016-06-03 Thread Eric Phetteplace
Hi Doug, Thanks—Duplicate looks quite handy. I hadn't seen that. I doubt we'll go the way of creating a second account for each work study student, that seems kind of the worst of both worlds as now it's more work to set up than a shared login *and* it's a fake account. I'm not too concerned abou

Re: [Koha] Handling student worker accounts

2016-06-03 Thread Doug Dearden
Hi Eric, From a system admin viewpoint I never create generic logins for users. The reason is that if you have to investigate something after the fact, and a log file indicates that "Librarian1" was the username you don't know who that is if it is shared amongst several people. Better to crea