aharshbe / loaner_automation

Loaner automation project for GitHub

Loaner Self Service

Purpose

• Create a GUI based tool which will allow users to check out loaners without the need of IT

• Allows the user to:

  • Create their own user account

• Script creates:

  • New user account via the user with GUI
  • Creates a local account on the loaner machine with credentials provided by user
  • Automates the re-provisioning of the machine for the next user

Dependencies:

• Python 3.7 installed
• Python .env and .env credentials
  • sudo pip3 install -U python-dotenv

Usage:

• Clone repo, i.e., git clone https://github.com/aharshbe/loaner_automation
• In your terminal, cd into the repo
• cd into loaner_automation/files
• Type python3 ./loaner_automation_ui.py

Mongo Server initialization:

• use <db name>
• db.createUser({ user: “<username>” , pwd: “<password>“, roles: [ { role: “readWrite”, db: “<db name>“}])
• make .env
  • cat .env ->

DB=<dbname>
USERNAME=<username>
PASSWORD=<password>
MONGOOSE_URI=mongodb://localhost:27017/

Authors:

• Travis Kopp
• Austin Harshberger