Try something like this (untested)
cat <filename> | awk '{printf("-p %s %s\n",$2,$1)}' | xargs useradd
or you could try this:
cat <filename> | awk '{printf("useradd -M -p %s %s\n",$2,$1)}' > myfile
chmod 777 myfile
myfile
HTH, HAND
Bill Ward
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Subject: script to buld add user accounts
I run a small mail server for some schools that cannot afford their own and
from time to time I get a list of new users who need accounts. I would like
to automate this as much as possible on my box running RH 6.1.
I was wondering if anyone knew of a script that would take a text file with
something like:
name1 pass1
name2 pass2
... ...
as a format and then just go through the list and run adduser against is
with
the proper tags? I am not much of a shell script hacker, and I have tried
modifying a PERL script that I have just to crypt a list of
username/passwords, but I am failing there as well.
Any help would be much appreciated. I volunteer my time and when I get 50+
names at a time it is a big time commitment, as I get the account request in
the form of a spreadsheet it would be nice if I could put it to use. Thanks
in advance.
Cheers,
Jack.
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