Re: Setting Up Multiple Users in Panther

Hi David,

There a few different ways that you could do this depending on how
you want your system to run. If you are talking about one computer,
you can create the various accounts with yourself being the administrator
of the machine. You can makeup various passwords and assign them
individually to each student. They can then change the passwords
themselves after they login.

If you have a machine acting as a server, you could configure various
machines to authenticate through your server.

You can also connect your machine to the Active Directory system
run on campus. This would then allow your students and others
who are official Berkeley faculty, staff, and students to login
using their Calnet ID and passphrase. This method would enable
anybody from Berkeley though to use your machine. I believe there
is a way to possibly limit the users, but I haven't investigated
that.

For simplicity, it might be easier to just create accounts for your
twenty students. A useful site that I've found for these types
of issues is:

http://macenterprise.org

There is a link to macosxlabs.org which is now stored in the archives,
but this was heavily used by others around the country in situations
like yours.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,

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On Fri, 28 Jan 2005, David K H Elliott wrote:

> Jan 27, 2005
>
> Hello.
>
> I'm in the process of setting up a small Mac Panther network to be
> used by students in theatrical lighting design. Part of the process
> will include creating one account for each student for a total of
> twenty accounts. My question is: is there a technique or a tool that
> would simplify this process in some way, some form of batch creation
> of accounts? Or is it that they must be set up one at a time? I
> suspect it's the latter, given the need for unique passwords and
> short names, but thought I'd ask anyway.
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance,
>
> David
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