Re: Adding MANY players at once

• Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 07:34:39 PST
• From:
  Graeme Smith <grysmith@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
• cc: "'moo'" <MOO-Cows.PARC@xerox.com>
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GRAEME SMITH                         email: grysmith@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca
2536 138A ave Edmonton             

On Sun, 28 Jan 1996, PILOSOF AVI wrote:

> 
> The moo we are setting up here will be such that people login from a VMS 
> based system. When they choose the MOO menu item, they will be automagically 
> logged in using their login name and some auto-generated password.

for my NewCore Mod0, I developed a verb called pad, that creates an arbitrary
number of a specific type of object. The idea was to Zone the MOO so that
all the player objects would be in the same place, so I could develop special
buffers for moving Modules in and out, etc. It's not terribly difficult to
write such a verb. My suggestion, is, do a pad of characters. Then set up a
verb that gives each one a name from an authorized character list, and sets
up the arbitrary password, and finally mails the person their 
character/passwd.
 
To get the list in, use your front end, to put it into a property, through
something like the edit command.

IF you think you are going to want to do it again, then automate it with
a third verb, and you can have a pattern like this:

1. Enter List into property
2. invoke Pad/Passwd/Mail command
3. check Objects for accuracy

> 
> The problem is that we need to add these users in the first place, and we're 
> talking about several hundred to begin with.
> 
> I have the list of users, formatted however I want, etc, etc, etc.
> 
> The original thought was to write a unix shell script to telnet to the moo 
> host for each name, and send a "create <name> <pass>" to the host. However, 
> I can't think of a way to do this, since once telnet starts, I doubt I can 
> send a string to its port from the unix shell.

I still haven't figured out how to do this via a shell script either.
> 
> I'd welcome any suggestions. Assume I have UNIX, WinNT, and VMS at my 
> disposal.
> 
> While I'm here, let me ask this:
> 
> Why does this command:
> 
> ;ctime( $time_utils:from_ctime(ctime()) )
> 
> Return this:
> 
> "Tue Jan 30 03:05:08 1996 EST"
> 
> When the date is actually (as returned by ctime):
> 
> "Mon Jan 29 11:05:08 1996 EST"
> 
> ?????
> 
> Avi
> 
16 hrs does seem a bit excessive as an error.

				Grey

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