@ road:

Well, computer science students get full unix shell accounts with SSH access. They don’t usually deactivate them when you graduate either. Mine got taken away though because I sort of abused it… Not sure exactly what got me in trouble. It could have been port scanning school network using nmap. It could have been using it to compile various security tools (password crackers, port scanners, etc…). It could have been the fact I was using it to run a blog, which later got spammed into oblivion. It could have been the fact that was putting up various binaries for download (mostly stuff I wrote, but I also had various open source tools that I compiled and patched to work on the ancient Solaris server we were using). It’s probably all of these things combined.

I talked to them and promised to be good but they won’t give it back cause I’m no longer a student. It’s ok for them to forget to disable accounts after people graduate, but they can’t really justify handing out new ones to adjuncts.

Anyways, OIT is mostly clueless. The unix accounts I mentioned are handled by a mini-IT dept that services CSAM (computer science and mathematics) depts. They are only slightly less clueless.

Also, these are highly desirable traits in a potential life mate of either sex:

– not interrupting when you code
– not rolling eyes/yawning when you talk about technical stuff
– not minding the fact that you like to play video games

:)

The OIT doesn’t allow students to access their public_html folders via ssh/sftp? That’s medieval.

Also, with respect to people interrupting you while you’ve got code on your screen… My wife is finally pretty well-trained to leave me alone while I’m “typing into that black screen”. Everyone else still annoys the piss out of me, though, while I’m coding.

Hey, nice! I’m glad I could help.

If you are using the code you’d probably want to comment out the Course ID check in RegisterHandler. Otherwise you won’t be able to register without a CoruseID and you won’t be able to add CourseID without registering. I’m using that check to prevent random people from registering for the service – they have to know the “secret code” to get in.

Also, there is currently now way to promote user to admin in the UI. You have to do this manually in the Datastore.

I’m not sure if the Free quota are enough. I’m doing a test run with 26 users who will be uploading their pages pretty much simultaneously so it might get ugly. I will let you know how that worked after Thursday. :)

Fuck me, that’s exactly what I’ve been looking for just this week end.
I tried to hack something using indexer and uploadify but it’s just garbage and too dangerous…

I’ll try your thing, thanks!