From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Nov 19 07:31:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA22552 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 07:31:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp) Received: from chain.freebsd.os.org.za (c3VamAgEojN3ZzgXPtecsJvoiDAGjtGt@chain.iafrica.com [196.7.74.174]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA22541 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 07:31:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from khetan@chain.iafrica.com) Received: from localhost (khetan@localhost) by chain.freebsd.os.org.za (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA03280 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:30:51 +0200 (SAT) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 17:30:50 +0200 (SAT) From: Khetan Gajjar X-Sender: khetan@chain Reply-To: Khetan Gajjar To: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Adding 700+ users with one or two commands Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi. I've got a list of usernames, in the format that adduser wants them in a file. username groupname '' 'Full Name' password I've tried a command like cat file | xargs -n5 adduser -group groupname -shell nologin -batch, but this doesn't work quite nicely. Does anybody have a better solution for me ? I need users created, and their usernames appended to the group, and a home directory created. Any ideas ? TIA. --- Khetan Gajjar - whois kg1779 | khetan@iafrica.com or khetan@os.org.za http://chain.iafrica.com/~khetan | PGPKey : finger khetan@chain.iafrica.com UUNET Internet Africa Support | FreeBSD enthusiast-www2.za.freebsd.org Unix is user friendly; it's just selective about who it calls a friend!