On 5/20/08, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 20-May-08, at 6:16 PM, Devdas Bhagat wrote: > > >> 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) > > can also be done with webmin
while checking out the chpasswd i can accross the newuser command i manually added the following line in my /etc/passwd file then i ran the "newuser" command meghanand:x:2010:2010::/home/website/meghanand.com:/sbin/nologin #newusers /etc/passwd this created the the home dir /home/website/meghanand.com :-) -- > Regards > Agnello Dsouza > www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com > -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
