Re: newusers command

2000-07-12 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does adduser support reading data from a file? For large number > of users like in our case (around 500) interactive entry for each > user is not a desirable option. I don't believe adduser will read from a file, not directly anyway, but it is a perl

Re: newusers command

2000-07-12 Thread Suresh Kumar. R
Hi, Does adduser support reading data from a file? For large number of users like in our case (around 500) interactive entry for each user is not a desirable option. Suresh On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 11:40:32AM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I used n

Re: newusers command

2000-07-11 Thread Ron Rademaker
adduser is a perl script AFAIK, that uses useradd, so if you would edit the script, you can make it do what you want it to do. Ron On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote: > "Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I used newusers command to create large numbers of users. I find that >

Re: newusers command

2000-07-11 Thread Gary Hennigan
"Suresh Kumar. R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I used newusers command to create large numbers of users. I find that > > 1. it doesnot copy files from /etc/skel to the home directory. > Should it be enabled in some way ? > > 2. Also, it creates users with ids greater that what is > existing al