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Article #59016Re: Automating User Creation
From: David Rose
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 08 Apr 1996 00:00
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Shane Seymour <seymours@ozemail.com.au> writes:
>Grant Cotton wrote:
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I was wondering if there was some script out there I could use to add 200
>> or so users onto our internet server running Linux 1.2.13. I've tried
>> redirecting input and piping into 'adduser' without success. Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Grant Cotton
>> Technology Support, Wesley College, Melbourne
>> voice: (03) 9881 5300 fax: (03) 9803 0851
>Grant,
>Write a script to read the file and call adduser, it would take about 10-15
>min at most to do it.
>Shane
>Tip of the year - use the korn shell
If you are running shadowed passwords, just use newusers, if you've got
shadowed installed properly they'll be a man page.
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