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topic started 5/31/2004; 4:07:24 PM
last post 6/1/2004; 10:46:23 AM

$user$ Kevin Leonard - changing professor password $blueArrow$
5/31/2004; 4:07:24 PM (reads: 1060, responses: 5)

I have a practice course setup and multiple users have access to it. Unfortunately, someone changed the professors password and now I cant login as professor. How do I reset the professors password?

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$user$ Michael Gage - Re: changing professor password $blueArrow$
5/31/2004; 6:14:44 PM (reads: 1249, responses: 1)

For WeBWorK 1.9 this is done using the command line script
newpassword.pl

(which is in the scripts directory /ww/webwork/system/scripts/newpassword.pl)

The useage is

/ww/webwork/system/scripts/newpassword.pl coursename loginname newpassword

If you have the scripts directory in your path you can just type

newpassword.pl

and the script will remind you of the syntax.

-- Mike

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$user$ John Jones - Re: changing professor password $blueArrow$
5/31/2004; 7:13:19 PM (reads: 1234, responses: 0)

If it is webwork 2, I now have an analogous command line script for changing passwords. If people are interested, speak up and I will post it somewhere.

John

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$user$ Michael Gage - Re: changing professor password $blueArrow$
6/1/2004; 8:58:13 AM (reads: 1201, responses: 0)

Hi John,

I suggest putting the script you mention and similar scripts in the webwork2/bin directory in the CVS.

There are already scripts such as addcourse and so forth. For the most part these functions can be accomplished from the web, but when possible we should make command line versions available for backup purposes, or for those situations where it is more efficient to do things using direct unix access to the webserver.

-- Mike

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$user$ John Jones - Re: changing professor password $blueArrow$
6/1/2004; 10:46:23 AM (reads: 1254, responses: 0)

Ok. This one seemed especially useful as a way to bail yourself out in case you forgot the only professors password.

John

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$user$ Kevin Leonard - Re: changing professor password $blueArrow$
6/1/2004; 11:06:20 AM (reads: 1408, responses: 0)

Thanks Mike, it worked great!

Kevin

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