ITIS 3110LAB 7

Scripts

Final Projects• Due today!• Team captains need to wait for feedback

• Will review immediately after lecture done

Lab 2 and 7• Second part of lab 2:

• Lab 2• Entering simple scripts• Testing • Documenting• Simple modifications on some

• Lab 7• Writing your own

• Major improvements to addpermplus• Create new accounts

LAB 7 HINTS

Improve addpermplus.sh• 1st parm must be only u, g, o, or a• 2nd parm must be only r, w, or x• 3rd parm must be a valid name

• You decide what a valid name consists of• size• characters• anything else

• Document your choice

• Test and document it's working• Show proper rejections

Create new accounts• Source for the new IDs will be an spreadsheet (e.g. Excel) file

• Contains at least Firstname and Lastname

• Convert (save) e.g. Excel .xlsx .csv file• Read the csv file to generate usernames

• Up to first 6 character of lastname last• 2 characters of firstname first• Concatinate last+first

• Create an account for each user• Home directory• Assign a random pw

• Your choice for length (but at least 6 chars)• Your choice for chars (but at least alpha + numerics)• Many samples on the internet• Record the pw somewhere so it can be sent to the user

• Recommend creating a new .csv file with the fname, lname, user name and pw• Can be viewed with a text reader or spreadsheet

• Force new PW when 1st login

Random Password• Use Google to find simple script• If you have openssh install it is a simple one-liner

Deliverables• Upload to Moodle

• .doc file • Copy of scripts code• Copy showing script running

• Working with good data• Rejecting bad data

• Enhanced addpermplus code• New accounts code

• Can be one module, or a suite of modules• Document how it works

• TA available this lab for advice to debug

Lab 7• Due next week

• Start of Next Lab

• This lab is worth 20 points

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