Perhaps to make things a bit easier for future searches, you could post an URL for that tool to this list? I know it gets archived and I can find pretty much anything I know has been mentioned on it through Google. Googling "mass user creation" seems to get a lot of Windows UMRA hits and mention that "you can whip up a bash script pretty quickly..." (but no clear howtos!).
Also, I know my script could definitely use some optimization and/or cleaning up to make it a bit more user friendly, so perhaps between the two sources something better will evolve. On Wed, 2007-10-01 at 14:05 -0500, David Trask wrote: > Clay Berlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Having spent the morning working out a BASH script to create batches of > >user accounts at once, I'd like to know if anyone else would be > >interested in this script or has a better one handy that does about the > >same function. Basically, my script takes FirstName LastName pairs (one > >per line) and makes unique user accounts out of them. It's presently > >posted at [ http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/962/, > >]http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/962/ but I'm not sure how long that site > >holds on to things... > > > > > > -- > >Clay Berlo <[ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >DSBN Technical Services > >-- > >edubuntu-users mailing list > >[email protected] > >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > >https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > > Good work! Although next time you might want to ask first....we already > have one :-) It's part of the Samba/LDAP installer package. I can post > it if people want. Matt Oquist wrote it to take first name last name and > make unique usernames....etc. > > David N. Trask > Technology Teacher/Director > Vassalboro Community School > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (207)923-3100 > > -- Clay Berlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DSBN Technical Services
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