Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (72 mails)

[Alastair Duncan <aduncan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

Alastair

>
> But each time I get the same response. Any idea anyone?
> Cheers
>
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