Of course, I have almost no programming experience whatsoever.. and it
doesn't even need to support the .mbx, because the formats are the
same..
-----Original Message-----
From: Igmar Palsenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: GateKeepeR News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, May 16, 1998 12:43 AM
Subject: Re: adding users?
|>Hello,
|>I need to add a large (~700) number of users to linux for use as a
|>mailserver. I really have no scripting knowledge whatsoever. My
>boss
|>doesn't believe that Linux can handle our email (we are using NT
>and
|>SLmail *cringe* right now). I have setup the server, but I need a
way >to
|>add all the users over. SLmail will export all the information to a
text
|>file, whereas the accounts are listed as such:
|
|>jsmith,John Smith,mypass,jsmith.mbx
|
|
|>So he has the username of "jsmith", fullname of "John Smith",
>password
|>of "mypass" and the jsmith.mbx is just the mailbox location, which
>would
|>not be needed.
|
|
|This could be done with some kind of script. The a adduser and passwd
|programs available that don't require userinput. Try looking at perl.
|
|I also believe that sendmail and the POP3 deamon can handle .mbx
files.....
|
|
|>I am sure that something could be worked out to just adduser
><username>
|>then passwd <username> to do all of them, but I don;t know how to
>do
|>this. Any ideas to help a Linux geek convert a company over from
>NT? :)
|>Thanks!
|
|>Bryan
|
|
|Igmar
|
|
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