[Building Sakai] Encrypt password on sakai user

[Matthew Jones]

If you want to just create users rather than using webservices you can
also use a newer entitybroker. You'd need to compile it for 2.5.x to
get one that exposes more entities. Then you can do it all with curl
or whatever programming language you like through rest requests. It's
already available in 2.6.

(https://source.sakaiproject.org/viewsvn/entitybroker/tags/) The tags
entitybroker-1.3.5 and entitybroker-1.3.6 are 2.5.x compatible.

#Authenticate into your sakai session as an admin
curl -v -k -c cookies.txt -b cookies.txt -d "eid=admin" -d "pw=admin"
https://<your sakai url>/portal/xlogin
#Verify you logged in correctly (Should say displayId as admin)
curl -v -k -c cookies.txt -b cookies.txt https://<your sakai
url>/direct/user/current.xml
#Perform other activities, such as creating a user testuser with the
password testpassword
curl -v -k -c cookies.txt -b cookies.txt -d "eid=testuser" -d
"password=testpassword"  https://<your sakai url>/direct/user/new

Other possibility and entities you can POST/GET/PUT are at /direct

Normally though the base provider in the user tool is encoding the
passwords, though using some api (EB/webservices) is the way to go.

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 11:24 AM, David Horwitz <david.horwitz at uct.ac.za> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if your trying to manipulate the user objects directly to set a password i
> would caution you against it and rather suggest you use the API - you can
> access this via a wbservice if you want to script it. The stored password
> though is a MD5 hash.
>
> Regards
>
> David
>
> Wellington Santos wrote:
>
> Hi people
>
> I sent lots of e-mails to contact us on sakai website, but no one
> answered me.
> I just would like to know where I can find the encrypt class of password
> on sakai user or simply know what's the encrypt name.
> Is there any one who can help me about that?
>
>
> thanks a lot people.
>
>
>
>
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