[LON-CAPA-admin] authentification method for authors

[Stuart Peter Raeburn]

Stefan, 

Please check the version of pwdutils you are running either using: 

rpm -q pwdutils 

or via yast -> Install and Remove Software -> Search (for pwdutils) 

You need version 3.0.6 (available from the LON-CAPA repository) to allow 
lcuseradd to set a password. 

The version available in the core SLES9 packages (2.6.4-2.16) does not 
support the --stdin option which is used by the LON-CAPA script, so this 
needs to be updated to 3.0.6, if you wish to add users to your LON-CAPA 
domain who will use filesystem authentication on log-in.  If you need to 
update to 3.0.6, and wish to use yast you will need to have the LON-CAPA 
included as a software source (see 
http://install.loncapa.org/sles9_install.html). 

Alternatively you could use wget to obtain the rpm directly:
wget 
http://install.loncapa.org/suse/sles9/RPMS/i586/pwdutils-3.0.6-1.i586.rpm
(32 bit) 

and use: 

rpm -Uvh pwdutils-3.0.6-1.i586.rpm 

or 

wget 
http://install.loncapa.org/suse/sles9/RPMS/x86_64/pwdutils-3.0.6-1.x86_64.rp 
m
(64-bit) 

and use
rpm -Uvh pwdutils-3.0.6-1.x86_64.rpm 

to install it. 

I tested the "Create User" function on a LON-CAPA library server running 
SLES9 at MSU (with pwdutils 3.0.6) and was able to create a new user with 
internal authentication.  With pwdutils 2.6.4-2.16 installed I get exactly 
the error you report: 

Creating user "xxxxx" in domain "yyyy"
Generating user: error: lcuseradd_failed:lcuseradd Unable to set password
Home server: no_host
Modifying Roles
Assigning au in /yyyy/, starting Mon Jun 26 15:03:19 2006: no_such_host 

Stuart Raeburn
MSU LON-CAPA group 

Stefan Bisitz writes: 

> Hi, 
> 
> who can help with the authentification methods within LON-CAPA? 
> 
> LON-CAPA says:
> "As a general rule, only authors or co-authors should be filesystem
> authenticated (which allows access to the server filesystem)." 
> 
> Creating a new user who should become an author with file system
> authentification brings an error message: 
> 
> ---- start ----
> Creating user "xxxxx" in domain "fhwf"
> Generating user: error: lcuseradd_failed:lcuseradd Unable to set password
> Home server: no_host
> Modifying Roles
> Assigning au in /fhwf/, starting Mon Jun 26 11:04:56 2006: no_such_host 
> 
> Create/Modify Another User
> ---- end ---- 
> 
> Internally authenticated is no problem. 
> 
> We are using SLES9 with the latest LON-CAPA version. 
> 
> 
> An author, who is internally authenticated, can also create, rename, ...
> directories. Actually, I see no need for file system authentification so
> far. Which kind of access to the server filesystem is ment (and for
> which reason)? 
> 
> And how can a domain coordinator see which authentification method a
> user has? 
> 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Stefan 
> 
> 
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