Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1998 14:23:47 +0800 From: Swee-Chuan Khoo <sckhoo@asiapac.net> To: Satya Devireddy <satya@dspsoft.com> Cc: Paul Stewart <paul@kawartha.com>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding Hundreds Of Users Message-ID: <3611CE73.CAEE04AA@asiapac.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9809300038140.20723-100000@srv.kapmail.com>
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Satya Devireddy wrote: > > 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? > I did a test about 3 months back adding 10000 users. > I took the script about aout 1.5 days to complete!!! (over the weekend) > where as deleteing them took about 8hrs. can we use pwd_mkdb to do that? this will create pwd.db and spwd.db and by using scripts to create your normal passwd & master.passwd. i think this will only take a fraction of the time. just my RM0.02 -- Swee-Chuan Khoo, sckhoo@asiapac.net | Not only do i speak for http://www.asiapac.net/~sckhoo/ | myself; I am myself ------------------------------------------------------------- "Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed." -Martin Luther King, Jr. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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