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@XXXXXXXXX.XXX 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