[PLUG] adding user accounts in bulk

[Jeme A Brelin]

> 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

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
>  and
> cp /etc/skel/\.* /home/$USERNAME
> chown -R $USERNAME /home/$USERNAME

Rather,
useradd -m -k /etc/skel -p $PASSWORD $USERNAME

Why do you folks always do things the hard way?

J.
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