Re: Adding users from a list or database?
Steve Phillips wrote:
> What do you do if you have to add many users on a regular basis?
>
> I would like to be able to add users from a list, to avoid the
> interactive nature of adduser. Is there a tool that does something like
> this? A couple of years ago I modified adduser to read entries from a
> simple database (one line per entry, fields deliminated by colons) and
> automagically create user accounts for them. Thats based on a really
> old version of adduser though.
If I remember correctly then adduser is based on useradd which is
not interactive. However I don't think that it's able to set a
password.
Regards,
Joey
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