On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 01:56:37AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.24.0138 +0100]: > > I have written a script perl(not very perlich ;-)) which install > > n accounts but I have encountered few problems: > > /usr/bin/newusers > > don't reinvent the wheel... > > > A question: what is the use of "mkpasswd" in debian (potato-woody) ? > > makepasswd | mkpasswd -H md5 --stdin > > that's compatible with /etc/shadow if you use md5 passwords, which i > think you are...
Many thanks for your advices. "newusers" is very fast but we should write a script to put the file of data in the form of passwd otherwise write a file of data in the suitable form for 300 users(or +) may take a lot of time. "newusers" is not the entire whel :-) -- Gerard
