On Jan 23, 2008 12:07 PM, Oliver Grawert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > On Mi, 2008-01-23 at 10:33 -0800, Joseph Hartman wrote: > > I've been reading a lot of recommendations for giving each student > > their own account on the terminal server but I am loathe to go through > > the user creation process dozens of times for each class. Is there a > > mass user creation method I don't know about? Upload a .csv or > > something? Thanks -joe > in any case make sure whatever script you use uses adduser, not > useradd ... useradd is a low level tool and shouldnt be used directly, > adduser adds the right default groups and user settings you need in an > ubuntu system ... >
Thanks for the tip. The script does use useradd so it should probably be changed to use adduser. Again, no guarantees this is the best solution or even a good one. Just sharing what I have. Feel free to make it better. Although it sounds like webmin is a better approach. Thanks. Jim -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
