[LON-CAPA-admin] [was LON-CAPA-users] mass resetting internal aauth passwords

[Gerd Kortemeyer]

Hi,


> On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Ray Batchelor wrote:
>>
>>     How can one quickly reset the passwords for a bunch of internally
>> authenticated students in a hosted course??  Course coordinators  
>> can't reset
>> passwords, it seems to me.


On Sep 14, 2006, at 8:05 PM, lucasm at ohiou.edu wrote:

>
> Have fun, Ray. This is a domain coordinator only ability as far as  
> I know.

Yep. At some point, I would like to add the functionality that if a  
domain coordinator impersonates a course coordinator, they can upload  
class lists and overwrite the password. I have spend longer than I  
care to admit resetting passwords one-by-one by hand.

> I have considered writing a script to do this, but I'm not sure  
> this is sanctioned behavior for root!

A script is the way to go for now, I think. The file is

/home/httpd/lonUsers/(your_domain)/(first)/(second)/(third)/ 
(username)/password

for example

/home/httpd/lonUsers/msu/k/o/r/kortemey/password

For internally authenticated, it looks like this:

internal:3XbDe45Bh

where the latter is the encrypted password.

Reset one password by hand, and copy that file to the rest of the  
users. Somebody probably already has a script like that ...

BTW, the reason that course coordinators cannot do this is that the  
confusion would be great if a kid is already in some courses, and  
then their password gets messed up because they were added to another  
course. We didn't want passwords to bounce around like that at the  
discretion of just any course coordinator.

- Gerd.