Add existing user to configuration

[tobiasraabe]

Description

Add option to add an existing user (useful for extending admin accounts).

• no add user, no samba
• yes to statics, venv,

[tobiasraabe]

@cataclysmic You said no samba, because the administrator has samba access by default. But what about every other user?

If that's true what about separating this command for administrator and user again? Two commands:

• initialise asks whether admin should have statics (statics, venv, but no samba)
• add_user checks whether user exists and asks whether she should be migrated into the configuration (statics, venv and samba)

[cataclysmic]

On desktop systems users are usually created with samba permissions. If not then it's usually intentional. Also for initialization of a samba user you need to set the samba passwd. I fear that we might run into trouble here if we call smbpasswd for an existing user.

[tobiasraabe]

Like this Procedure here?

You are right. If they want to have samba they should set up a new account or do it themselves.

[tobiasraabe]

@cataclysmic When I tried to implement this step, I was not sure where to start and where to end.

Migrating an existing user into the config involves many check and steps which are not currently coded. The framework should be changed like I proposed in #4 and that cannot be done until tomorrow.

When a user wants a working copy of oTree, she should create a new account and copy over her files. This is much safer than an adhoc solution.

When #4 is resolved, this issue will be part of it.

[cataclysmic]

OK. Then we leave it as is for now. Same for the change in statics. Let's rather test it tomorrow if it works. People could also download that stats 7z and adapt to otree_environ_config. What do you think?