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Math students in CS125 inability to login to student.cs and student.math yet could yesterday.

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Abram Hindle

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Feb 7, 2007, 9:59:28 AM2/7/07
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Multiple students have come in complaining that they couldn't log into
their accounts specific student.cs (there is an assignment due today). In
some cases they had a student number account and could log into the cscf
macs but their password would not work on student.cs and student.math.
Example math students with this problem: jw2chen

In other cases the students were in groups math1, cs125 and could login in
before yesterday but for some reason couldn't today. Each one had
confirmed they had changed their password.
Example math students with this problem: l13zhang, b7liu

In non-math cases there were non-cs students who took cs125 and had not
changed their password, they could log into macs yet no other machines. If
I remember correctly their password was set to New-User when I userinfo'd
them.
Example non-math non-cs students: js2park

I informed the CS125 instructors that many students had not changed their
passwords and there are many password problems this morning.

This kind of behaviour has been reported in cscf.help before, as well.

abram (mfcf unix consultant)

Ian Turner

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Feb 7, 2007, 11:00:13 AM2/7/07
to Abram Hindle, consulta@math, accounts@cs
as you speculated to me, there is a cleanup process a couple of weeks
into term on the Unix side of the student.cs accounts world that
modifies accounts where the password has not been changed. If their Mac
was still accepting student number as a password, then something was
wrong with their original password change on Unix. Karen verified a
"password change" is in the first exercise. I think that covers your
first and third paragraphs.

re the students whose lab behaviour changed even though they are in
cs125, and had previously changed their password - the groups look OK
now on Active Directory, but at least one of them was affected by the
bad data last week, and if that was their only CS course, then the
process *might* have done something to their Unix account/password when
they were incorrectly deemed to have *dropped* the course.

Could they log in after a password reset?

Thanks
Ian
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