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Re: [SLE] kde and multiple users question
  • From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:12:18 +0100
  • Message-id: <200401171812.18476.andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 17 January 2004 19:07, steve-ss wrote:
> I work in an international coillege with 200 students. I'd like a whole
> group to login as say year9, and avoid havig to set up logins and passwords
> for every student.

write a script that creates accounts like student001, student002 etc and
generates random passwords for each. It would take a second to run, and not
much longer to write

> It's also easier to check their work: all in the same
> directory.

and everyone has permissions to everyone else's work, making it very simple to
either cheat or sabotage for others by deleting their files or changing them.

> I know I'm being lazy but the fact is we have many problems with
> the multilple logins. I feel sure one login one student would solve our
> login problems.

very likely


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