From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 12 23:29:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1AE0C14C24 for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 23:29:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 5517 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Mar 1999 07:17:25 -0000 Message-ID: <19990313071725.5516.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:17:25 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Joe Schwartz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bulk account creation [was: rjoe] References: <199903122013.OAA23622@sierrahill.com> In-reply-to: <199903122013.OAA23622@sierrahill.com> of Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:13:45 CST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Please use meaningful subject headers, such as the one I have chosen. I have removed freebsd-net, as this is a clear case of something for -questions. > They have about 3000 e-mail accounts. I can get a text file from an > Excel spread sheet which has account info in it. (I haven't seen it yet) > > Does anyone know of an easy way to create all these accounts? or has > anyone done something similar? > > Perhaps a combination of perl & expect? Hardly. Try "man pw sh", whip up a trivial script, and you're done. If you have problems, come back when you have the format of the input data and somebody will probably help. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message