[PLUG] adding user accounts in bulk

Ed Sawicki ed at alcpress.com
Sat Jan 3 16:22:01 UTC 2004


On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 13:48, Carla Schroder wrote:
> Anyone know of a nice script for adding users in bulk on a Linux system? 
> Assume you already have a database of user information of some kind- a 
> /passwd file from another system, a directory or database of some kind.
> I think I would want the login names and other personal data, and then 
> generate a new password. I've been googling without much success.


man newusers

Ed

> If there is such a thing, it will probably have to be modified, but it would 
> be nice to have something to play with.
> 
> thanks!





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