[PLUG] adding user accounts in bulk

[Carla Schroder]

On Saturday 03 January 2004 4:23 pm, Ed Sawicki wrote:
> 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
> 

Nice try, but newusers is pretty much useless. it does not create useful UIDs 
or GIDs, and having to create them manually rather defeats the idea of trying 
to automate the process. Back to swotting at scripts...

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