[17:05] <highvoltage> "I am setting up an 18 client mobile lab for periodic use in 3rd to 8th grade classrooms. The administration has asked me for help in specifying a lab teacher. Is there any documentation or past experience available to help them?"
[17:05] <highvoltage> did someone just ask us for specifications for a teacher!?
[18:56] <Davew_> Alkisg suggested that I ask my question here and not at the ltsp forum as it was pointed out to me that my question concerned users
[18:57] <Davew_> rather than clients, so here goes
[18:57] <Davew_> I have to add about a 130 users on to an 12.04 ltsp system.
[18:59] <Davew_> I shall probably do this in batches of 30 . I can see how it is possible to set up a default group for the student group, is there anyway to set a default password which at first use
[18:59] <Davew_> has to be changed by the user
[19:02] <Davew_> The intention is to create a single group so that I can assign a particular menu for
[19:03] <Davew_> the student group, and if I can force the students to enter their own passwords in it saves the problem of collecting them and entering them in manually.
[19:08] <alkisg> Which tool do you plan to use?
[19:10] <Davew_> Hi Alkisg, Not made my mind up but it seem sto me that if I could have a file
[19:11] <Davew_> which contained the default student information then this could be picked up by whatever I used
[19:13] <alkisg> Sure, that is possible
[19:13] <Davew_> How about the forcing of the user to enter a password
[19:14] <alkisg> That's possible too
[19:14] <Davew_> Can you point me in the right direction
[19:14] <alkisg> I did, yesterday
[19:15] <alkisg> But you need to select a tool to use
[19:15] <alkisg> If you can script, then adduser can do anything you want
[19:15] <alkisg> If you can't, check the newusers man page
[19:16] <alkisg> If you don't like manpages, select one of the web based user management tools
[19:16] <Davew_> Ok thank you, I shall examine both
[19:17] <alkisg> Also, I suggested asking in #ubuntu, not #edubuntu,
[19:17] <alkisg> as user creation is not edubuntu specific, so you might get more help there (more users)
[19:17] <Davew_> Thank you again.
[19:18] <alkisg> You're welcome
[19:20] <alkisg> Davew_: also, for just 30 users, you could do it with the small preinstalled gnome users management tool