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1.1     ! raeburn     1: An auto-update, run as a regular process, can update user information
        !             2: stored in LON-CAPA for all users in a domain, for whom institutional
        !             3: directory information is available. Which user records are updated
        !             4: can be controlled by institutional status (e.g., Faculty, Staff, Student
        !             5: etc.). If a user is affiliated with more than group, then the attributes
        !             6: which can be updated will be the cumulative set for the different
        !             7: groups to which the user belongs.
        !             8: 
        !             9: If users are not affilliated with any institutional group, they can
        !            10: be accommodated within the default \char`\"{}Other users\char`\"{}
        !            11: group which is provided automatically. If no status types are defined
        !            12: for your domain, this default group is entitled \char`\"{}All users\char`\"{}. 
        !            13: 
        !            14: Settings for auto-update are:
        !            15: 
        !            16: \begin{itemize}
        !            17: \item Set auto-enrollment as active or inactive in the domain. 
        !            18: \item Set whether user information changes should propagate to data stored
        !            19: in classlist database files for the separate courses in which the
        !            20: user has an active student role. 
        !            21: \item Set which of the following attributes: first name, middle name, last
        !            22: name, generation, e-mail address, student/employee ID should be updated
        !            23: within LON-CAPA if a different version to the one currently stored
        !            24: is retrieved from the institutional directory.
        !            25: \end{itemize}
        !            26: In order for Autoupdate to work, the \&allusers\_info() routine in
        !            27: localenroll.pm needs to be customized and a conduit established to
        !            28: institutional data. In addition, if you wish to differentiate between
        !            29: institutional user types in your LON-CAPA domain the \&inst\_usertypes()
        !            30: routine in localenroll.pm will need to be customized to correspond
        !            31: with the types used at your institution. These types are then used
        !            32: to populate the \char`\"{}User population\char`\"{} column in each
        !            33: of the \char`\"{}Updateable user information\char`\"{} row(s) in the
        !            34: Auto-update data table in \char`\"{}Domain Configuration\char`\"{}.
        !            35: 
        !            36: Warnings will be written to the Auto-update log file found in /home/httpd/perl/logs
        !            37: if a possible username change is detected. Although the username is
        !            38: the unique identifier in LON-CAPA, the student/employee ID operates
        !            39: as an additional, mostly unique identifier. At present LON-CAPA does
        !            40: not support username changes. For users who switch username (assuming
        !            41: institutional authentication will no longer authenticate the user's
        !            42: old username) is to convert the authentication type in LON-CAPA for
        !            43: the user to \char`\"{}internal\char`\"{}, set an initial password,
        !            44: make sure that permanent e-mail is set for the user, then e-mail the
        !            45: user the initial password, and ask them to use the \char`\"{}\underbar{Forgot
        !            46: password?}\char`\"{} link on the log-in page to change the password
        !            47: to something secure.