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.
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 ( yes, it is possible to write loop script that will read the /etc/passwd file and create the users ) but is there any other way to do this. thanks for your feed back -- Regards Agnello Dsouza www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
