Re: Using Debian with lots of users

[Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net>]

#!/usr/bin/perl
infile = $ARGV[0];
open( INFILE, $infile ) || die("Could not open $ARGV[0]\n");
foreach $line (<INFILE) {
  ($user, $passwd) = split(/ /, $line);
  $adduser = "adduser -p $passwd -s /sbin/nologin -h /usr/home -g mail
-G ,,, $user > /dev/null";
  system($adduser);
}
close INFILE;

We use a more modified version of this as a frontend to adduser.  It
copies across the network and what not.  You get the idea though.  We
call it newuser and the syntax is simply newuser <file o' users>.

The file looks like:
login passwd
login passwd


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