Re: Batch creating linux accounts

[Stéphane Bruno <sbruno@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you be more specific? I am planning to offer the service to a local ISP, but I never did this before. Can you point me to some resources where I can find information about the more professional way to create and maintain a high number of accounts under Linux for email accounts for an ISP, the industry standard? Are you talking about using NIS or some other kind of centralized information management for accounts? And how do you "import" the accounts along with their password (the ISP has a system running on Windows and will probably export its existing accounts under a format which I can import into Linux).

Thanks in advance for your help.

Stéphane

Rudolf Kastl wrote:

2006/1/17, Stéphane Bruno <sbruno@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

Hello,

I need to create about 3000 user accounts on a Linux box (Fedora Core 4
or Red Hat Enterprise Linux). Is there a tool that allows you to create
those accounts programmatically, with the usernames and passwords taken
from a text file, for example?

Thanks,
Stéphane

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why not use ldap or another more professional approach? after you settuped your active directory you can just run system-config-authentication and have them imported.

 

regards,

rudolf kastl