From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Sep 29 06:03:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA16964 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 06:03:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from odyssey.apana.org.au (odyssey.apana.org.au [203.11.114.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA16959 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 06:03:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Received: from localhost (dean@localhost) by odyssey.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA12634; Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:03:20 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from dean@odyssey.apana.org.au) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:03:20 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister To: Paul Stewart cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding Hundreds Of Users In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Paul Stewart wrote: > Hi there... > > I'm looking for a simple method of adding hundreds of users to a FreeBSD > box. I can obtain a listing of username, password (one to each line in a > text file) by exporting a database on another O/S. Can this be pumped > into a simple script or does adduser itself accept complete command line > variables? Yes, adduser can be sent a one-line command string. bash$ man adduser For more info. Regards, d. +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Dean Hollister, | dean@mushka.ml.org | | Perth, Western Australia. | dean@wa.apana.org.au | +-------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message