Greet Newcomers

Get dependencies

• Get Python 3
• pip3 install ldap3 (you might need sudo, or better --user, or best a virtualenv)
• mkdir -p ~/.cache

Go !

• ./greet_newcomers.py

On the first time, it will construct a database of the guys already here.

After that, on each launch, it will find the new guys, and send them a greeting mail. The template of this mail is in template.txt.

Cron job

To run this script everyday at 5 AM:

(crontab -l; echo "0 5 * * * $(which python) $(pwd)/greet_newcomers.py") | crontab -