Spent the afternoon generating new student accounts.
As usual, there were a few wrinkles to be ironed out. A couple of people who are “others” that are now students (presumably faculty brats or somesuch). A few folks who are coming back after an absence, often having been Explore-A-College. And only one collision of two folks with nearly identical names (no middle name on one, so I used the standard basename+1 for the one with no middle name and the MI for the one with a middle name).
Standard procedure: turn off LDAP/NIS exports on both SHANTI and KE, run the new accounts, catch any fallout (file system full when munging the /etc/passwd on SHANTI or can’t contact LDAP server), manually push the NIS stuff out, run the new accounts on PAX and KE, and then turn the NIS stuff back on.
Posted by Rowan Littell at August 11, 2004 04:50 PM