Howdy: It seems that this would have been brought up a few times, but, is there a script in around to create multiple unix accounts? Rather, I have a lot of accounts to create and I don't want to go over them by hand every time a batch of request comes in.
It's not so much the logic of the script that I'm concerned with, but the security part. For instance, sometimes if I create a user by hand, editing the /etc/passwd (using vipw) doesn't really edit the /etc/shadow file. I'm not sure why, either. It *should*. As for a script, are there any scripts that take security for accounts into account? Now that I think about it, it sounds like i should butcher the useradd / adduser script and work from there ... just wanted to see if there was an alternative with Perl. Just thinking out loud. -X
