Yeah.. what he said.
* Blake
-----Original Message-----
From: J.L.Francois [
mailto:frenchie@magusnet.gilbert.az.us]
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 1:04 PM
To:
plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
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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