<snip> > > Thus, you should probably go back to your LAH and read up on > what it has to say about adding users, and see if there is a > "useradd" or "adduser" or similar script provided (what > flavor of Linux are you using?) to see what it does (it might > be quite sufficient), and then you'll have an idea of what > you want your Cool Script to do for you. <snip>
Heh, yeah, there are automated tools called adduser and userdel (and others), but the book seems to suggest that you could use perl to do it all as well. I'll re-read that section tonight, to make sure I'm not going crazy, but it seemed to say that you could use perl as a sort of "wrapper" to tie all the automated processes together. What really got me thinking was the password changing part. When you create a users's password, it asks for the password, and then for you to confirm it, and I couldn't think of how to automate that in perl. Hence the reason for the question :) Ron
