[PLUG] Re: bulk addition of users
Keith Morse
kgmorse at mpcu.com
Tue Oct 7 09:19:11 UTC 2003
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Scott Van Hoosen wrote:
> I'm no shell script expert, but here's a script that will read a text
> file with "firstname lastname" and create users by their first name,
> with password of their first name. I'll bet someone can come up with
> something better, but this might get you started:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> cat users | while read first last
> do
> useradd $first
> echo $last | passwd --stdin $first
> done
Wow, I didn't know --stdin existed. Added between passwd ver 0.64 and
0.68. This simplifies the task greatly, many thanks.
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