RE: [SLUG] addusers from text file

2003-02-02 Thread Ben de Luca
Try man bash man awk or http://www.python.org or http://www.perl.org Im sure that an self respecting IT manager knows one of these well enough to parse a text file? Bend Not and IT manager -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Simon

Re: [SLUG] addusers from text file

2003-02-02 Thread Glen Turner
Simon Bryan wrote: I have been trying to find an adduser script that will read it's input from a file. I used to have one but it has gone MIA. I need to be able to set username, gid, home directory and shell. How about just reformatting the file suitably for useradd? awk -f reformat.awk

Re: [SLUG] addusers from text file

2003-02-02 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 13:01, Simon Bryan wrote: Any clues appreciated the 'newusers' command appears to be what you want (from the shadow password utilities pkg) PS. I couldn't remember the name of the command, so typed adding multiple users into google/linux and found it. Dave. -- SLUG -