I'm trying to avoid typing every password manually. I just need an script that makes the job.

useradd creates the account but still need to setup accpunt's password.

On 8/3/09, nate centos@linuxpowered.net wrote:

David Leon wrote:

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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

What's the question? How to do it? Parse the text file and use something like useradd to add the accounts, is probably the quickest way.

nate

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Hi,

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 14:49, David Leondleon741210@gmail.com wrote:

I'm trying to avoid typing every password manually. I just need an script that makes the job.

echo "$password" | passwd --stdin "$username"

Obviously, this must be run as root.

HTH, Filipe

I found this

This command is intended to be used in a large system environment where many accounts are updated at a single time (batch mode). Since username and passwords are stored in clear text format make sure only root can read/write the file.

Use chmod command:

# touch /root/batch-user-add.txt # chmod 0600 /root/batch-user-add.txt

Create a user list as follows. Open file:

# vi /root/batch-user-add.txt

Append username and password: user1:password:1001:513:Student Account:/home/user1:/bin/bash user2:password:1002:513:Sales user:/home/user2:/bin/bash user100:password:1100:513:Sales user:/home/user100:/bin/bash tom:password:1110:501:Guest Account:/home/guest:/bin/menu jerry:password:1120:501:Guest Account:/home/guest:/bin/menu

Now create users in batch:

# newusers /root/batch-user-add.txt

On 8/3/09, nate centos@linuxpowered.net wrote:

David Leon wrote:

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I'm trying to avoid typing every password manually. I just need an script that makes the job.

useradd creates the account but still need to setup accpunt's password.

from 'man passwd'

   --stdin
          This option is used to indicate that passwd should read the

new password from standard input, which can be a pipe.

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thanks, I will try this, it looks like what I'm looking for

On 8/3/09, a arias aarias239@gmail.com wrote:

Try this:

while true do read username passwd if [ "$username" == "" ] then exit fi passwd_hash=$(openssl passwd $passwd) echo "Using the following password hash for user "$username": $passwd_hash" /usr/sbin/useradd $username -p "$passwd_hash"; done

use the script like this:

add_multiple_users.sh < /path/to/userlist.txt

Don't forget to make the script executable:

chmod +x add_multiple_users.sh

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 2:56 PM, nate centos@linuxpowered.net wrote:

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David Leon wrote:

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I'm trying to avoid typing every password manually. I just need an script that makes the job.

useradd creates the account but still need to setup accpunt's password.

from 'man passwd'

  --stdin
         This option is used to indicate that passwd should read the

new password from standard input, which can be a pipe.

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