Changing user name generation

[James Yale <james.yale@cyberadmin.org>]

Hi,

I've been playing with Skole a reasonable amount recent, and have put it 
into afew small schools near where I am, one of the biggest problems 
we're having is the username generation - although the add ldap user 
script works well, for the schools I've put Skole into, it generates 
really bad usernames :)

The ideal solution would just be another field on the webmin page to 
specify a username, instead of one being generated (if one wasn't 
specified, the username could still be auto-generated?) - that way we 
can have usernames the reflect the yeargroup or class name of the 
student, for instance '02g3jy' for a student in year 2, class g3 with 
the initials jy.

I've tried looking at the perl which makes up the webmin module, and 
though I've picked up some perl since looking, it seems to be using a 
templating system which is beyond me (at the moment anyway).

What I'm after are any hints as to what exactly needs changing (I'm 
looking at ldap-users.pl, EnterManyUsers.tmpl.html and 
WebminLdapSkolelinux.pm) and mabye a broad idea of how to go about it, 
or possibly to suggest the inclusion of this as a feature in a future 
release?

Thanks for any comments,

James
jim@thebiggame.org