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Date:      Mon, 1 Dec 1997 13:17:01 +0200 (SAT)
From:      Khetan Gajjar <khetan@chain.iafrica.com>
To:        "Jan L. Peterson" <jlp@imall.com>
Cc:        isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Adding 700+ users with one or two commands 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971201131630.13966u-100000@chain>
In-Reply-To: <199711191826.LAA10409@banana.imall.com>

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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Jan L. Peterson wrote:

>while read line
>  do eval set $line
>     adduser -batch $1 $2 "" "$4" $5 -shell nologin
>  done < yourfile

Great. It worked :)

I ended up using
while read line; 
do eval set $line; 
adduser -batch $1 "" "" $3 "$4" $5 -shell nologin; 
done < input_file

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