Hi everybody I'm pleased to announce my greatly improved version of 'createusers', a console tool which sets up users in bulk. For each new user, createusers now sets up some or all of the following facilities: - Login account and home directory - Personal webspace through the local Apache web server - MySQL database account on the local or remote MySQL server - Samba file sharing account on the local Samba server. The facilities set up for new users can be enabled selectively using the createusers configuration file. Users can be removed using the supplied 'removeusers' utility. The login, MySQL and Samba password of any user can be changed using 'updateuserpasswd'. This can be used to provide PHP and MySQL enabled personal webspace to all the pupils in a school. Users can also access their 'home directory' Samba file share, and other Samba shares, depending on the permissions in the Samba server. Createusers is a Bourne Again Shell (bash) shell script licenced under the GPL. I have tested it successfully on Red Hat 6.0, 7.0, Suse 6.2 and Turbo Linux 6.0, so I think (but am not absolutely certain) the code is now stable. I'd like to encourage everyone to download it, try it out, look at the code and let me know of any errors or problems you find. I'll very much appreciate any feedback. :-) The createusers homepage is: http://www.lfsp.org/ For the impatient, the direct download URL is: http://www.lfsp.org/tarred/createusers-1.2.tar.gz I'd like to add support for Squid user accounts, and a number of other features which I've listed in the TODO file in the distribution. Can anyone help? If so please do let me know, either through the list or directly. Best wishes Phil Jones phil@lfsp.org Linux for Schools Project