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On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Randy Katz wrote:

> I'm trying to add, automatically, new users which have a single home
> directory and a shell of /nonexistent. Is there a script around that
> lets one do that?

If you're decent with perl, you should be able to hack adduser to your
needs, or look at the adduser(8) man page.  It allows several options.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major

PS:  Communicator is really starting to burn me.  Mozilla tacked on this
ugly 13 line attachment to your message. Just use a regular signature
instead of this add-on garbage.  At least you got the html encoding turned
off; thank you.