Adding many users?

ricardocastro · 02-09-2002, 03:23 PM

Hi!

My name is Ricardo Castro and i'm complete newbie in the Linux use .
My office has decided to use Linux like its Operating System and we need to create and account for everyone; the little problem is that we're talking about 800 people!

Is there anyway to create them without the need to do it one by one?
Is there any script available? (he have 4 groups of work)

Thank's!

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trickykid · 02-12-2002, 09:00 PM

not sure of any programs or scripts but most of the time you have to add them one by one.. or if you have a list.. you can create the passwd file and add them that way.. but it would take just as long in going thru the steps to manually add them as you would have to create their home dir's too.. etc..

try doing a search on the web to see if any scripts are available.

Malicious · 02-14-2002, 12:02 AM

man useradd

The useradd command can be used in a shell script to add the users. You will still have to type in the user names, but here is a very simple script.

#!/bin/bash
usernames="tom dick harry"
for name in $usernames
do
useradd -d /home/$username -g users -s /bin/bash $username
done
#end of script

This script will add users tom, dick and harry with home directories at /home/tom, /home/dick and /home/harry respectively. They will all be members of group "users" and will get the bash shell on login.

kervin · 02-14-2002, 01:17 PM

ricardo,

check freshmeat, http://freshmeat.net/

A quick search brings up quite a few hits.
http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=user+...tion=trove_cat

createusers looks good, http://freshmeat.net/projects/createusers/

good luck.

PS. on a side note I'd recommend that you use a Central user database like LDAP or Kerberos as your nameservice. This will allow you to administer all your users in a central location. Check out http://linuxdoc.org/ for more info.

ricardocastro · 02-19-2002, 01:22 PM

It's really works!!!

Thanks to all; the program createusers in freshman allow me to active all accounts.

Thank's to all!!

Sincerely

Ricardo