Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (34 mails)

[Russell XXXXXX <XXX@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil,

thanks for the info - it looks great - I'll be trying in this weekend...

Glad I found your pages....

... I can't get you at your emaill address though....

cheers,

Russell

> ----------
> From: 	Phil Jones
> Sent: 	Friday, January 19, 2001 1:23 PM
> To: 	XXX@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: 	Re: useradd newbie -g students
> 
> Hi Russell
> 
> > Is there a way to use a text file to automatically generate users?
> 
> Yes there is, it's called createusers and I wrote it. :-) It's a free
> download
> from http://www.lfsp.org.  Createusers takes a plain text comma separated
> file
> containing username, password in plain text, real name and user group. 
> 
> > We have a linux box running apache to provide webspace for 
> > each student... adding everyone through the command line or 
> > linuxconf would be a real  pain....
> 
> That's *exactly* the problem createusers is designed to solve.  Do try it
> out
> and let the list know if it worked.  Please let me know you received this
> mail!
> 
> Best wishes
> -- 
> Phil Jones
> Systems Programmer   http://www.vi.net    Direct phone: 0207 854 6230
> 
>