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David Ayre (dayre@sfu.ca)
Fri, 10 Sep 1999 23:03:04 -0700
falstaff@lennon.postino.com wrote:
> I am trying to setup over 100 users on a RH6 linux box, with passwords.
> I have a perl script that runs /usr/sbin/adduser to create the users, but
> I cannot figure out how to create the passwords. Someone suggested using
> chpasswd to change the passwords, but I cannot figure out how to pipe
> a list of users & passwords to the command. Any help appreciated.
>
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I think using the "newusers" command (should be part of the RH6 dist.. its on
mine) may be easier to use... it can update and create users in batch from a
file listing usernames and cleartext passwords which it then encrypts.
Your input file is a file similar in format to /etc/passwd with the exception
that the
password field is in cleartext... Since you seem to be working with perl.. i
don't
think you'd have a hard time whipping up a script to create this file with
your users and set them up with inital randomly generated passwords (6+
randomly chosen numbers/letters ?)..
hope this helps...
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