sublime dvd download Some of the more interesting projects really can’t be seen in a website. One of the more interesting ones that I developed uses Frontier and dataComet (a scriptable telnet application) to generate unix accounts.
Using a unix script, I can find all students with the need for a unix account on our system. Once this data is generated, Frontier then ftp’s the information, processes the user information, and generates unique usernames and passwords.
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The second half of the process is done with dataComet. Frontier controls dataComet, telnets to our server, logs in as a superuser, and then uploads the account information previously generated. This was recently put into production (2/2/99) and processed over 1000 user accounts. I can’t imagine doing that by hand.
The really nice part was that this process made it trivial to upload the data into a database and then print out one sheet of information for each student. The professors loved having one page of instructions per student rather than sending them all to some office to fill out a form. For Continuning Education students, that becomes a significant inconvenience.
