Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 15:21:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Sake Blok <sake@euronet.nl> To: paul@kawartha.com (Paul Stewart) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding Hundreds Of Users Message-ID: <199809291321.PAA05001@support.euronet.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980929081610.13974A-100000@shell.kawartha.com> from Paul Stewart at "Sep 29, 98 08:17:27 am"
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According to Paul Stewart:
>
> 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?
>From 'man adduser':
ADDUSER(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual
ADDUSER(8)
NAME
adduser - command for adding new users
SYNOPSIS
adduser [-batch username [group,[group,...]] [fullname] [password]]
[-check_only] [-config_create] [-dotdir dotdir] [-group
login_group] [-h | -help] [-home home] [-message message_file]
[-noconfig] [-shell shell] [-s | -silent | -q | -quiet] [-uid
uid_start] [-v | -verbose]
[...]
Yes, it does accept commandline variables.
Sake
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