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

Thu Oct 8 17:43:18 PDT 2009

Might need to borrow some code from site-manage, and port that to user.

This sort of email stuff should ideally be abstracted out into the  
email service or similar, if its not already.

cheers,
Steve

On 09/10/2009, at 11:29 AM, Jon Gorrono wrote:

> 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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