Problems with Csuite admin account

Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 12:17:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kenneth Applegate <starsrus@scn.org>
To: csuite-install@chebucto.ns.ca
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On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, David Murdoch wrote:

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> 
> Hi Ken, That's right the prompt for account name and password for the
> "Office Administrator" is not the same as the csuite account. 
> 
> This prompt is looking for the password supplied in the configuration
> step assigning a "password for WWW access" for user "csuite".

OK - using the WWW password I was able to access the Admin area. I used
another virual console to log in as guest and submit a request for a
regular account, and then went back to Admin on the csuite login and went
through the procedure for activating the account. That whole setup for
handling accounts seems to work well.

During installation, I modified the data on Chebucto user and membership
classes to reflect Seattle Community Network uses. The modifications
showed up on the screens for administering accounts, but the changes were
not present during the registration process seen by a guest user - and I
wonder if this is a bug, or due to some error of mine during installation. 

I noticed that the standard user account I created was assigned an account
name of aa001 - reasonable, since there were no other Chebucto accounts on
the machine. However, does the csuite administrator have a way to set the
starting point for new account IDs? I know that during installation, there
is a place where a range of UID numbers is assigned for Chebucto accounts,
but what about account names? Our existing SCN system is well through the
bb-bz series, and we would probably want new Chebucto accounts to start
with cc, for instance.

Another item - there is a set time interval for the cron job that
processes the activation of user accounts. For test purposes, it would be
convenient to decrease the lag time to a few minutes. Can this be done
just by editing the crontab, or is there a way to modify the time from the
csuite Admin interface? 

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

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