Cameron Simpson wrote:
In a former life we used to just present the student ids with an "s",If you're already up and running the numeric user ids, you can smoothly transition to the new form of ids--define duplicates for the actual user ids.
thus:
s1234567
See if you can do this. It may save you a lot of pain later.
Note: ****This is the outline, no safety parachute included.*****
cat /etc/passwd > fred
cat /etc/passwd | sed 's/^/s/' >> fred
then remove the new s-prefixed accounts that aren't student accounts...
mv fred /etc/passwd
Do similiarly for /etc/shadow. Make sure your password changes work.
Test the strategy by duplicating a single line in each file first.
You can then later disable, and then remove, the numeric form of the user id.
Alan
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Alan Peery
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