Re: create multiple unix accounts

2001-12-10 Thread John W. Krahn
Shaunn Johnson wrote: > > 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*.

Re: create multiple unix accounts

2001-12-10 Thread William.Ampeh
In Bourne shell, you could do: for i in `echo name_a name_b name_c name_d name_e name_f name_g` do echo "creating user account: $i"; passwd $i< secret_$i done -- In C-sh foreach i (`echo name_a name_b name_c name_d name_e name_f name_g`) echo "cre