On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:21:28PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: > HI > i had a small query, i wanted to know if it is possible to create a home > directory for a particular user by just editing the /etc/passwd file. > No.
> Suppose for eg : i have abt 1000 unix users, and due to some unforseen > reasons my server crashes, however i have copy of the /etc/passwd and > /etc/shadow file , Now is there a way to directly add those ( 1000 odd user > ) to my system with out actually manually using the useradd command > chpasswd(8) Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
