Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:56:53 -0500 From: Lucas Bergman <iceberg@pobox.com> To: "Derek Jewett" <djewett@snowcrest.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding users... Message-ID: <199907131654.LAA13913@eeyore.cc.uic.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 13 Jul 1999 08:58:06 PDT." <000801becd48$7fa40e70$5515a8c0@co.shasta.ca.us>
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> Running 3.1-R, I want to import users from a comma delimited file
> (exported from a large Windows NT domain) into my passwd database...
> Is there a utility for this type of stuff... thanks!
i don't know of any utility _per se_, but it can be done _very_
quickly with Awk and a shell script. for example, if your file
contains just 'username,real name' on each line, then use the
script:
----------
#!/bin/sh
while read line
do
fields=`echo $line | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "," } { print $1, $2 }'`
username=`echo $fields | (read username realname; echo $username)`
realname=`echo $fields | (read username realname; echo $realname)`
/usr/sbin/pw useradd $username -c "$realname"
done
----------
call it, say, 'add_nt_users.sh'. then run
$ ./add_nt_users.sh <nt_user_data
and you're on your way. see awk(1) and sh(1) for more details.
you can obviously tailor the script to add handling for lots of
fields...
Lucas
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