Re: adding multiple users, newuser? and vim

[Mike Egglestone <megglestone@heritage.sd57.bc.ca>]

Thanks for the script!
I'm not good at scripting.
I like the bash one.
How do I chomp off part of the first name so that the
output looks like this:     from johnny smith

jsmith

thanks
Mike

Quoting Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com>:

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:38:56PM -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote:
> > 
> > joe blow
> > john smith
> > john doe
> > 
> > I would like to use "newusers" to add about 500 accounts to my system,
> > but how do I quickly make the txt file look like this:
> > 
> > joe_blow:password:1001:1001:,,,/home/joe_blow:/bin/bash
> > john_smith:password:1002:1002:,,,/home/john_smith:bin/bash
> 
> You can also use bash:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> pid=1000;
> while read n1 n2; do
> let pid=$pid+1
> echo ${n1}_${n2}:password:${pid}:${pid}:,,,/home/${n1}_${n2}:/bin/bash
> done
> 
> filter your source data with this script.  Then onto newusers.  :-)
> 
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