The purpose of the page is so that systems administrators can approve the provisional users on the system. Each provisional user is list with three possible actions. These actions are "approve," "defer," and "remove." Respectively, the three actions upgrade the user to a real user, no action, and remove the user from the system completely. In the final case any data the user has in his home directory will be preserved.
Once again, this script is a WRAP authenticated PHP script. Users in /etc/users.local have permission to access this script and therefore approve and deny users on the Beowulf. If a users is "approved" the respective user ID is dropped into the "upgrade_list" table in the database. If the user is "removed" the the user ID is dropped into the "remove_list" table. All updates actually happen the next run of the back end scripts.
This script is pretty new and feature less at the present moment. It definitely needs to look a little better and friendlier. Also, the "defer" action should probably be the default rather than the "approve" action.
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