Hi, Does adduser support reading data from a file? For large number of users like in our case (around 500) interactive entry for each user is not a desirable option.
Suresh On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 11:40:32AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I used newusers command to create large numbers of users. I find that > > > > 1. it doesnot copy files from /etc/skel to the home directory. > > Should it be enabled in some way ? > > > > 2. Also, it creates users with ids greater that what is > > existing already. (As I understand from the source code) > > By default in debian, thereis the nobody account with 65534 > > as userid and all accounts created with newusers were not working > > with reference to file permisions. (Precisely speaking, the new > > home directories created were not having the userid ownership.) > > I had to change the nobody user id to some value like 200 to make > > the newusers command work. Is there any other alternative? > > > > 3. Is it possible to use newusers command to execute some defaults > > script after creating users (For ex. to run smbpasswd) ? > > I'm not sure what the difference is but you might try the adduser > command instead (man adduser). I've never used newusers so I can't say > how it compares, but certainly adduser does almost everything you > mentioned above. I don't know if it can handle #3, but you could > certainly easily write your own script to call adduser and then > execute smbpasswd I would think. > > Gary Suresh ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Suresh Kumar.R, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Electronics & Communication College of Engineering, Trivandrum - 695 016, INDIA Phone: (O) 91 471 414634/418379, (R) 91 471 443496
