RE: adding users via scripts

1998-06-02 Thread Chris
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Scott Ellis wrote: > > *mumble man chpasswd* ... hey, cool! 'chpasswd -e' does exactly what I > want! > > Thanks Scott :) > Just for your interest, I put together a few scripts to do user creation (automatic generation of use

RE: adding users via scripts

1998-06-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Scott Ellis wrote: : On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: : : > On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Bob McGowan wrote: : > : > : How about just adding the 'passwd' command to the scirpt? : > : > Because I don't know what the user's password is. I have the encrypted : > password entry

RE: adding users via scripts

1998-06-01 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Bob McGowan wrote: > > : How about just adding the 'passwd' command to the scirpt? > > Because I don't know what the user's password is. I have the encrypted > password entry from the /etc/master.passwd file from the BSDi box, and

RE: adding users via scripts

1998-06-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 1 Jun 1998, Bob McGowan wrote: : > -Original Message- : > From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : > Sent: Sunday, May 31, 1998 10:11 AM : > To: Debian User List : > Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] : > Subject: adding users via script

RE: adding users via scripts

1998-06-01 Thread Bob McGowan
> -Original Message- > From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, May 31, 1998 10:11 AM > To: Debian User List > Cc: recipient list not shown; @[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: adding users via scripts > > > We are in the process of moving

adding users via scripts

1998-05-31 Thread Nathan E Norman
We are in the process of moving users from a BSDi box to a Linux box. BSDi has an adduser script which accepts encrypted passwords. The Debian adduser script does not. From reading through the code for each, it seems that BSDi's adduser script manipulates the password file directly. ( I'm not a