Hey all-
Just giving a much delayed update to this...there is a built-in command (at
least there is on my RHL 6.x system) called newusers. Do a man newusers for
syntax, but basically it reads in a file of usernames and passwords, along
with other information (expiration, group, etc), and creates the users in a
batch! Exactly what I needed! So discard the icky perl code I posted
earlier; this is better!!!
Thanks, Aaron, for pointing me to chpasswd...that's what pointed to
newusers. 8-)
-Brian
On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 04:35:37PM -0500, Aaron Malone wrote:
>
> As a matter of fact, there's a program that does exactly what you're
> looking for: chpasswd(8). It takes a file of format:
Except my sleep-addled brain just realized you wanted *add* a bunch of
users, not change their passwords. Sorry. Well, maybe someone else
needs to know how to do this.
If anyone is still interested, I can post a python script that will
add multiple users -- just let me know.
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Poplar Bluff Internet, Inc. doesn't mean I'm wrong."
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