Re: "bulk" create of 400 users

From: Lew Pitcher (Lew.Pitcher_at_td.com)
Date: 11/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 08:39:02 -0500

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Kay wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have to "bulk" create 400 users with username/password and home-dirs.
> Username and passwords are available as a textfile in a non-crypted
> format. Does anybody have an idea how to create 400 users with one step?

You could use the newusers(8) command to build all your users in one batch.

The manpage for newusers(8) says:

  NEWUSERS(8) NEWUSERS(8)

  NAME
         newusers - update and create new users in batch

  SYNOPSIS
         newusers [new_users]

  DESCRIPTION
         newusers reads a file of user name and cleartext password
         pairs and uses this information to update a group of existing
         users or to create new users. Each line is in the same format
         as the standard password file (see passwd(5)) with the
         following exceptions...

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Lew Pitcher, IT Specialist, Enterprise Data Systems
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)
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