BLeonhardt@analytek.de wrote:

does anybody have a idea, how to generate more than 100 Users without having to add them manually or with YaST ?

Is there anything like a skript ? The users need the home-dir's too

Other Linux distributions (Debian) use a tool named "adduser" instead of "useradd" (which does make users home-dir with option -m). adduser is better suited for adding many users. Perhaps you can find it somewhere on the net. Kevin -- _ | Kevin Ivory | Tel: +49-551-37000041 |_ |\ | | Service Network GmbH | Fax: +49-551-3700009 ._|ER | \|ET | Bahnhofsallee 1b | mailto:Ivory@SerNet.de Service Network | 37081 Goettingen | http://www.SerNet.de/

* BLeonhardt@analytek.de wrote on Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 14:01 +0200:

does anybody have a idea, how to generate more than 100 Users without having to add them manually or with YaST ?

Is there anything like a skript ? The users need the home-dir's too ... !

First, backup /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group :) I would suggest to just create such a script. It's easy. Imagine, you have a file with a line for each user like user1 pass1 user2 pass2 and so on. pass shouldn't have spaces I guess. Call it i.e. new_users. Well, then create a bash script like: #!/bin/bash #This is an untested example while read a b ; do echo -n user: $a useradd -m $USERADDOPTS $a echo "$a:$b" | chpasswd echo " OK" done < new_users USERADDOPTS can carry additionally parameters (try useradd --help). (put the code in a file, chmod +x it, execute it. Feel free to add something. Please check it before using it :). Try it with one or two accounts, adjust it, and finally just use it :)). I don't recommend to edit /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow directly at all. There are already tools build for that that care about security, safeness, races, tmpfiles and so on. It's GNU/Linux, so just use it :) oki, Steffen -- Dieses Schreiben wurde maschinell erstellt, es trägt daher weder Unterschrift noch Siegel.