Re: Adding a lot of users in a single operation.
"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote:
>
> The trouble is that none of the utilities (that I know of) allow you to specify the
> password on the command line. Perhaps you can do it with pipes, like the following.
Check the list archives - I posted a script on this list a couple days
back that generates the /etc/passwd entries for you (and nis auto_home
entries as well), including encrypting passwords specified on the
command line.
jpb
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