Quoting Mark Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello,
> I just ran across your message on a debian.org thread. Did
> you find a way to import user accounts from a text file?
> Were you able to add the samba passwords at the same time?
> I'm looking to do the same.
>
Hi Mark,
Yeah, I was able to do batch installs.
You need to have your list of users (users.txt) and passwords in this format.
jsmith:password:1002:1002:,,,:/home/jsmith/:/bin/bash
Then run the newusers command
# newusers users.txt
The 1002 represents their uID and GID.
If all you have is a list of users and passwords, you can run a shell script to
form a users.txt in the proper format for newusers.
If you need help with that, ask the debian-user list group, or google.
To add samba accounts, I had a similar smbusers.txt but with only the account
names and passwords.
jsmith password
tjohnson password
Then I ran
# while read n1 n2; do smbpasswd -as ${n1} ${n2}; done < smbu.txt
There's a probably a better way, but this worked for me.
You could also look at webmin, it may have some features for adding unix users
and samba users.
hth,
Mike
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