[PLUG] adding user accounts in bulk

Michael Rasmussen mikeraz at patch.com
Sat Jan 3 16:15:02 UTC 2004


On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:57:29PM -0800, AthlonRob wrote:
> 
> Use 'useradd' ....
> 
> In a for loop, something like:
> 
> useradd -p $PASSWORD $USERNAME
> mkdir /home/$USERNAME
 and 
cp /etc/skel/\.* /home/$USERNAME
chown -R $USERNAME /home/$USERNAME
 

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