[709] in Moira
Re: sis, moira, and staff
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Wed Mar 9 16:48:03 1994
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 94 15:59 EST
From: mar@actwin.com (Mark Rosenstein)
To: pjb@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-moira@MIT.EDU, thorne@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <9403092006.AA14051@pickle-pebble.MIT.EDU> (pjb@MIT.EDU)
Modifying a user account to set "secure password set" will generate a
letter. You could also generate another letter by turning that flag
off and then back on.
The reg_extra backend does two things: sets the kerberos password, and
sets the "secure password set" flag in the database with the current
date/time. So this flag in the database is the only way that moira
can tell that someone has registered, and generate a letter for them.
It generates letters for anyone who's secure field contains a date
since the last time letters are generated. The last time letters were
generated is stored in the secure field of user entry 0 (username
"[NONE]").
-Mark
