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Xianqing,
2.2 introduced a way to add local accounts using "vcld -setup". After running
that, select "1. VCL Base Module", then select "1. Add Local VCL User Account"
and follow the prompts.
Josh
On Friday January 21, 2011, Waldron, Michael H wrote:
> Xianqing,
>
> I created a simple shell script to do this. It prompts for userid, first
> name, last name, and email address. Then it inserts the entry into the
> USER table and the LOCALAUTH table. The value for 'salt' is just a random
> 8-char string. The value for 'passhash' is derived from combining the
> desired password with the salt and piping it to sha1sum. (E.g. echo -n
> 'mypassword ekYR8k2a' | sha1sum)
>
> The script could be improved by prompting for desired password and
> generating the passhash within the script, but this was just a quick and
> dirty script I wrote to use the same password each time.
>
> ===================================================
> #!/bin/bash
>
> while true
> do
> echo -n "Input userid =>"
> read myusername
> echo -n "Input first name =>"
> read myfirstname
> echo -n "Input last name =>"
> read mylastname
> echo -n "Input email address =>"
> read myemailaddr
> echo
> echo "userid: $myusername"
> echo "first: $myfirstname"
> echo "last: $mylastname"
> echo "email: $myemailaddr"
> echo -n "correct? (y/n) "
> read answer
> if [ "$answer" = "y" ]
> then
> break
> fi
> done
>
> # add entry to user table
> echo "INSERT INTO user (unityid, firstname, lastname, email, lastupdated)
> VALUES ('$myusername', '$myfirstname', '$mylastname', '$myemailaddr',
> NOW());" |mysql vcl
>
> # find out the id generated for that user
> ID=`echo "SELECT id, unityid FROM user WHERE unityid =
> '$myusername';"|mysql -s vcl|awk '{print $1}'`
>
> # add entry to the localauth table
> echo "insert into localauth (userid,salt,passhash,lastupdated) values
> ('$ID','ekYR8k2a','c142df97acda160fa2c5366b2fb8bd1686dd43c9',
> NOW());"|mysql vcl
> ==========================================================================
> ========
>
> Mike Waldron
> Systems Specialist
> ITS Research Computing
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> CB 3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
> 919-962-9778
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xianqing Yu [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 11:54 PM
> To: VCL Develop Mail List Mail List
> Subject: The way to create local user quickly
>
> Hi All:
>
> I try to create several local accounts in VCL system. Is there any ways to
> create local accounts easily and quickly?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Xianqing
>
> Graduate Student
> NCSU
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Josh Thompson
VCL Developer
North Carolina State University
my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu
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