Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (72 mails)

[Peter Wilson <peter.wilson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris,

Totally agree, this 'should' be part of the shadow password utils.

Peter.
 
On Fri, 2003-08-08 at 10:03, Chris Puttick wrote:
> I just keep coming back to newusers - from the man page:
> 
>   update and create new users in batch
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        newusers [new_users]
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>        newusers  reads a file of user name and cleartext password
>        pairs and uses this  information  to  update  a  group  of
>        existing  users  or  to create new users.  Each line is in
>        the  same  format  as  the  standard  password  file  (see
>        passwd(5)) with the following exceptions.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Nix
> To: suse-linux-uk-schools@xxxxxxxx
> Sent: 8/8/03 9:57 AM
> Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] addins users to groups....... 500+
> 
> > On Friday 08 August 2003 09:23, Andrew Nix wrote:
> >> > Yes, I think that I am confusing the issue by a factor of X^Y.
> >> Unlike Debian's 'useradd', SuSE doesn't offer the same
> >> functionality. Therefore, still using the same command as you have
> >> been using, change "useradd" for "usermod" and then try it.
> >>
> >> I changed the it to usermod. But I get the reply user Students doesnt
> >> exsist. Below is the exact command issued. Is there something wrong
> >> with it? Or is theresomething else i need to add to it?
> >>
> >> for i in $(cat ./KS3_20023_PUPILS.csv  | awk -F, '{print $1}'); do
> >> usermod $1 -G @Students; done
> >>
> >> I also tried it with a text file and the command is this:
> >>
> >> for i in $(cat ./Group\ Adding); do usermod $i -G Students; done
> >
> > I get the same error message with the above code. However, it does
> work
> > fine  on SuSE8.2 if you use useradd instead of usermod :-)
> >
> > for i in $(cat ./newusers); do useradd $i -G students; done
> 
> I use 8.2 and I agree it would work if the users werent already set up.
> But as they are it just tells me that they do exsist! Any other ideas?
> 
> > Alastair
> >
> >>
> >> But each time I get the same response. Any idea anyone?
> >> Cheers
> >>
> >> --
> >> Andrew Nix