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# IVLE - Informatics Virtual Learning Environment
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# Copyright (C) 2007-2008 The University of Melbourne
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# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA
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# Script to create a new user. This can also be done through the
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# administration interface.
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# This script wraps common.makeuser.
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# It also creates a unix account which common.makeuser does not.
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# (This script may not be appropriate for production on a multi-node
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# Import modules from the website is tricky since they're in the www
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sys.path.append(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), 'www'))
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import common.makeuser
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if len(sys.argv) <= 5:
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print "Usage: python makeuser.py <username> <password> <nick> " \
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"<fullname> <rolenm> [<studentid>]"
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print "Must run makeuser.py as root."
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username = sys.argv[1]
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password = sys.argv[2]
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fullname = sys.argv[4]
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studentid = sys.argv[6]
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# Resolve the user's username into a UID
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# Create the user if it does not exist
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(_,_,uid,_,_,_,_) = pwd.getpwnam(username)
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if os.system("useradd '%s'" % username) != 0:
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raise Exception("Failed to add Unix user account")
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(_,_,uid,_,_,_,_) = pwd.getpwnam(username)
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raise Exception("Failed to add Unix user account")
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# Make the user's jail
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common.makeuser.make_jail(username, uid)
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# Make the user's database entry
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common.makeuser.make_user_db(username, uid, password, nick, fullname,
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except Exception, message:
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print "Error: " + str(message)
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print "Successfully created user %s (%s)." % (username, fullname)