csuite questions

Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:18:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Kenneth Applegate <starsrus@scn.org>
To: csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca
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While investigating Csuite 1.1 features on two Linux test beds [standalone
home machine, networked Seattle Community Network machine], I have come
across a few things that don't seem to work as expected.

1) How long does it take for a user account REALLY to be deleted. After
the administrator deletes an account, it is made inaccessible to the user
within an hour. The account name then appears in a "pending" list which I
would expect csuite cron jobs to act upon within a reasonable amount of
time [a day? a week?]. However, test accounts that I deleted several weeks
ago are still in the pending list, and the user home directories are still
intact.

2) I have created IPs, and the web directories appear within an hour, and
the IP editor account can install files to those directories. However, I
am not sure how long it takes for links to web pages of new IPs to appear
under the "Information Providers" link from the main Csuite web page. I
left my home installation running overnight after creating an IP, but the
IP still hadn't appeared on the list of local IPs this morning.

3) IP web directories have files that seem to be owned by the principle IP
editor and belong to a group with the IP number - 1001 for ip-1001, etc,
if I do a ls -l command from root. However, grepping /etc/group for 1001
doesn't turn up any real group with 1001 for a name or a gid. What is
going on here? On our old Freeport system, IPs have real user accounts
(generic xx001, etc). In Csuite, there are apparently no actual IP
accounts, just regular user accounts promoted to IP Editor status for the
IP web area. Is that a correct interpretation?

4) From the Csuite documentation, I thought that IPs should be able to
install a set of "tagged" files all in one batch to their web area.
However, when I tag files, then bring up full menus, I get a different,
abbreviated menu that gives me options to move, delete, or download the
tagged files, but not to install them.  [On the other hand, installing a
whole selected directory of files works beautifully].

I would appreciate hearing from anyone who can provide answers to any of
the questions above.

Thank you

Ken Applegate, Seattle Community Network

Ken Applegate           How do you identify astronomers from Seattle? 
<starsrus@scn.org>      By the windshield wipers on their telescopes!

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