Re: [CentOS] help - batch account creation

Greetings,

On 8/3/09, David Leon dleon741210@gmail.com wrote:

Hello guys

I have a new Centos 5.3 running, and I have a text file with a bunch of accounts (more than 100) that I should create . File format is like this

user1 pasword1 user2 passwrd2 ....

How can I do this task easier than creating user one by one by hand? Need some help for building an script to achieve this task

Thanks David

I have used newusers command in conjunction with a text file in passwd file type fields. man newusers should be your friend here

and if they are to be replicated across nodes as in a cluster, wrap it up in a scrip with scp for /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow

HTH

Thanks and regards

Rajagopal