Hello! Perhaps my question is not too difficult for you to answer: I want to create more than 5000 new users on my system. Because there are 5000 users who already got their password, that means for me: I already got the complete files /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow on my system.
Now I want to create /home/directories in the way the programm "adduser" create /home/directories /copying files from /etc/skel and copy them in user's home directory, and so on. Now my question: I don't want to type in every information on each user while executing "adduser", because "adduser" asks for the password, the user's identity - these should be ignored. For me it would be easy to type in one command (which can be filled by the information that is given from the file /etc/passwd) , perhaps with "adduser" and lots of options, but without typing the information by hand. The rest should be automatically generated. Perhaps you have some nice ideas on that. Hope you understand my English - thanks. Heide
