Very Computer

by **Greg** » Sat, 21 Feb 1998 04:00:00

Hi
Does anyone know of a script that will take a bunch of names and create user accounts; I have over
300 people to give accounts to (we are not swapping files or running NIS for security reasons) and I
don't relish the thought of doing this by hand; also is there a decent fast way to generate random
passwords?

by _ » Tue, 24 Feb 1998 04:00:00

Use Perl to read the file into an array and then use your OS's command line
to adduser. Supply the args from the array of usernames.

Quote:> Hi
> Does anyone know of a script that will take a bunch of names and create

user accounts; I have over

Quote:> 300 people to give accounts to (we are not swapping files or running NIS

for security reasons) and I

Quote:> don't relish the thought of doing this by hand; also is there a decent

fast way to generate random

Quote:> passwords?

by **Ulric Eriksso** » Tue, 24 Feb 1998 04:00:00

> Hi
> Does anyone know of a script that will take a bunch of names and create user accounts; I have over
> 300 people to give accounts to (we are not swapping files or running NIS for security reasons) and I
> don't relish the thought of doing this by hand; also is there a decent fast way to generate random
> passwords?

Take a look at newusers from J F Haugh's shadow password suite.
It takes a file in /etc/passwd format as input, with the passwords
unencrypted, and generates users from it.

Also available is an HTML form at

http://teknik.edu.stockholm.se/cgi-bin/konton

which will automate some of the job, but it will be no good for you
unless you know Swedish.

A binary of newusers for Solaris is available from

ftp://ftp.edu.stockholm.se/pub/konton/solaris/

and probably many other places.

Ulric

Very Computer

Automate account creation?

Automate account creation?

Automate account creation?

Automate account creation?