On Tuesday 20 May 2008, 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. > > 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
You could manually do the things that useradd does (assign new userID, create passwd entry, create group entry, create shadow entry, create home directory, etc.), but why would you want to reinvent the wheel when useradd already does all that so well? Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
