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root@web:/var/www/unity-web-portal/workers# php ./create-course.php
Enter the course ID (example: CS123): cs125
Enter the year and semester of the course (example: Fall 2025): fall 2025
Please enter the cn to be used for the course (example: cs123_umass_edu): cs125_umass_edu
Enter the UID of the Unity team member responsible for the course: user1_org1_test
LDAP entries created:
{
    "course user": {
        "objectclass": [
            "inetOrgPerson",
            "posixAccount",
            "top",
            "ldapPublicKey"
        ],
        "uid": "cs125_umass_edu",
        "givenname": "cs125",
        "sn": "fall 2025",
        "gecos": "cs125 fall 2025",
        "mail": "user1+cs125_umass_edu@org1.test",
        "o": "umass_edu",
        "homedirectory": "\/home\/cs125_umass_edu",
        "loginshell": "\/bin\/bash",
        "uidnumber": "20018",
        "gidnumber": "20018",
        "cn": "cs125_umass_edu"
    },
    "course user group": {
        "objectclass": [
            "posixGroup",
            "top"
        ],
        "gidnumber": "20018",
        "cn": "cs125_umass_edu"
    },
    "course PI group": {
        "objectclass": [
            "posixGroup",
            "top"
        ],
        "gidnumber": "20019",
        "cn": "pi_cs125_umass_edu",
        "memberuid": [
            "cs125_umass_edu",
            "user1_org1_test"
        ]
    }
}
don't forget to run update-ldap-cache.php!

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Pull Request Overview

This PR adds a PHP worker script to create course-related LDAP entries for Unity Web Portal, specifically for creating PI groups associated with courses. The worker creates a course user, course user group, and course PI group with proper LDAP attributes and membership.

Key changes:

  • New interactive PHP script for creating course LDAP entries
  • Configuration override for course creator with specific UID/GID offset ranges

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Copilot reviewed 2 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated 5 comments.

File Description
workers/create-course.php New worker script that interactively creates course users and PI groups in LDAP
deployment/overrides/course-creator/config/config.ini Configuration override setting UID/GID offsets for course creator

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simonLeary42 and others added 2 commits September 12, 2025 12:41
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simonLeary42 commented Sep 15, 2025

  • todo ou=education

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simonLeary42 commented Sep 15, 2025

todo shadowexpire?

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todo move this script to ansible since it's creating an override specific for Unity production LDAP structure?

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simonLeary42 commented Sep 22, 2025

moved to ansible gitlab

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