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Re: FW: [help.mit.edu #1938262] athena initialization - cloudcar
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey Thomas)
Wed Mar 28 23:34:06 2012
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:34:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Geoffrey Thomas <geofft@MIT.EDU>
To: Erik Wilhelm <erikw@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
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Hi Erik,
The Athena login process does not auto-generate any user profiles on log
in; accounts are created when you first arrive at MIT. There is no
database or user settings that is updated at login time, and we don't
involve web applications at any step of this process, so I don't think
anything about how the Athena login process works will help you.
For technical details about the current Athena infrastructure, take a look
at
http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/wiki/HowAthenaWorks
and other links on http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/wiki/. If you are
designing a web-based application, all of this information should be
completely irrelevant to you.
--
Geoffrey Thomas
Athena Release Team
release-team@mit.edu
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012, Erik Wilhelm wrote:
> Hi Athena Release-team,
>
> I got your contact from the help desk, and would like to ask you a
> little bit about how you instantiate a new user's personal profile on a
> machine when they log in at a terminal. We're looking at our options for
> doing this for newly registered users for the cloudcar service, and I
> was hoping to get some insights from you about how we could implement
> our system.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Erik
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: helpdesk@MIT.EDU [mailto:helpdesk@MIT.EDU]
> Sent: March-28-12 5:00 PM
> To: erikw@mit.edu
> Subject: [help.mit.edu #1938262] athena initialization - cloudcar template
>
> Dear Erik,
>
> We're not quite sure what you mean by auto-generating user profiles, but
> the Athena release team can be contacted at:
> release-team@mit.edu
>
> Best of luck,
>
> Jessica Donnelly Reed
>
> Computing Help Desk
> MIT Information Services & Technology
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>
>
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> On Wed Mar 28 15:38:39 2012, erikw wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm working on a new initiative called cloudcar, we're hoping to
>> network cars through combining smart business models with the right implementation.
>> On both points I was wondering if someone from the IS&T with
>> experience in efficiently auto-generating user profiles for Athena
>> would have a second or two to talk to me. We're hoping to
>> automatically generate a database and user settings each time we
>> register a new user on www.cloudcar.mobi, similar to how I understand
>> the Athena log-in works. Can we pick your brains? ;)
>>
>> Thanks in advance, and look forward to hearing from you.
>>
>> Erik
>>
>
>
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