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Author: DonHarropdon@nis4u.com
Date:  
Subject: useradd
Perfect! The answerman comes through again! :-)
Thank you..

Don


----- Original Message -----
From: "J.L.Francois" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 1:04 PM
Subject: Re: useradd


> It seems like on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 12:19:01PM -0700, Don Harrop

scribbled:
> Orig Msg> I've got a ton of users to add on a particular linux box. I

have all the
> Orig Msg> usernames and passwords.. I'd like to create an executable file

that will
> Orig Msg> run useradd and insert everyone into the machine. I can't

figure out how to
> Orig Msg> make useradd take unencrypted passwords at the command prompt

though. Any
> Orig Msg> ideas?
> Orig Msg>
> Orig Msg> Don
>
> man newusers
> ====================
> NAME
>        newusers - update and create new users in batch

>
> SYNOPSIS
>        newusers [ new_users ]

>
> DESCRIPTION
>        newusers  reads a file of user name and cleartext password
>        pairs and uses this  information  to  update  a  group  of
>        existing  users  or  to create new users.  Each line is in
>        the  same  format  as  the  standard  password  file  (see
>        passwd(5)) with the following exceptions.

>
>
> man chpasswd
> =====================
>
> NAME
>        chpasswd - update password file in batch

>
> SYNOPSIS
>        chpasswd

>
> DESCRIPTION
>        chpasswd  reads a file of user name and cleartext password
>        pairs from standard input and  uses  this  information  to
>        update  a  group  of  existing users.  Each line is of the
>        format

>
>               user_name:password

>
>        The named user must exist.  The supplied password will  be
>        encrypted and the password age updated, if present.

>
>        This  command  is  intended  to  be used in a large system
>        environment where many accounts are created  at  a  single
>        time.

>
>
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