[Building Sakai] adding 100s of guest accounts as non-participants

[Jon Gorrono]

This prop is only referenced in the site-manage project: no ref's in
the user tool.

Good feature request though...IMO

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Steve Swinsburg
<steve.swinsburg at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does the notifyNewUserEmail=true property only work for accounts that are
> created via the Site Info > Add Participants section?
> Or does it also work when accounts are created via the Users tool or even
> new Account tool for self registration?
> ie:
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-15570
> "It would be nice to have a checkbox that one could click when creating a
> new user account (in the Admin New User tool) that, when submitted, sent out
> an email to the user whose account was just created with details of their
> username, password, how and where to login and how to change their password
> once they are logged in. "
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
> On 09/10/2009, at 6:43 AM, Zhen Qian wrote:
>
> As far as I can tell, there are two emails that would be sent for new users.
> And you can see the email content from tomcat log file by setting
> "testMode at org.sakaiproject.email.api.EmailService=true".
>
> Following are examples from my local instance:
>
> 1. The email to notify them that Sakai account has been created:
>
> "2009-10-08 15:39:02,728  INFO http-8080-Processor19
> org.sakaiproject.email.impl.BasicEmailService - send: from:
> postmaster at localhost to: test at test.com subject: LocalSakaiName New User
> Notification  headerTo: test at test.com replyTo: test at test.com content:
>
>  Dear test at test.com,
>
>  An account on LocalSakaiName (http://localhost:8080/portal) has been
> created for you by Sakai Administrator. To access your account:
>
>
>
>         1) Go to:
>
>                 http://localhost:8080/portal
>
>
>
>         2) Login using:
>
>                 User Id:        admin
>
>                 password:       1976419312
>
>  You can change your password ater you have logged  in, using the Account
> tool in your MyWorksace.
>
>
>
>  (This is an automated message from LocalSakaiName.)
>
>  additionalHeaders: [Precedence: bulk]"
>
> 2. The second one is to remind him that he has been added into current site:
>
> "2009-10-08 15:39:02,756  INFO http-8080-Processor19
> org.sakaiproject.email.impl.BasicEmailService - send: from:
> postmaster at localhost to: test at test.com subject: LocalSakaiName Site
> Notification headerTo: test at test.com replyTo: test at test.com content: Sakai
> Administrator:
>
>
>
>         Once you have your guest account, you can log in to LocalSakaiName:
>
> 1. Open   LocalSakaiName : http://localhost:8080/portal
>
> 2. Click the Login button.
>
> 3. Type your guest account login and password, and click Login.
>
> 4. Go to the site, click on the site tab. (You will see two or more tabs in
> a row across the upper part of the screen.)
>
>  additionalHeaders: [Precedence: bulk]"
>
> I think there is a param that controls whether auto-generated user password
> gets sent or not. But I couldn't find it now, and the password is embedded
> in the first notification email.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Zhen
>
> On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:12:06 -0400, John Leasia <jleasia at umich.edu> wrote:
>
> I have done hundreds - I'd suggest doing them in batches of a couple
> hundred. I don't know of a limit - but suggest < 1000 at least (not sure how
> they are added but there might be a problem with Oracle and > 1000
> arguments).  There is an option to send passwords to users added that way in
> an email - notifyNewUserEmail=true  in sakai.properties to turn on that
> feature. We don't use that here so I foget exactly how it works - the pwd is
> included in the email notifying them they've been added to a site, or maybe
> it's a separate email, I forget.
>
> John
>
>
>
> Ian Goh (Exchange IMAP) wrote:
>
> Hi Sakai Dev,
>
> One of our groups wants to add possibly hundreds of non-participants to
> a site using email addresses in the non-participant field.  This is for
> an open house, so these "students" wouldn't be in our SIS or even in our
> directory.
>
> Is there a limit to how many email addresses (one per line) you can post
> into the non-participant field?  I've done 100.  But rather than drive
> larger and larger trucks over the bridge until it stops working, does
> anyone know what the limit in the box is?
>
> Also, how to deal with the passwords that get automatically generated?
>
> Anyone done it something similar?
>
> Yours,
>
> - Ian
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