Creating multiple users

hrishikesh_am · 06-21-2008, 10:46 AM

Hello to everybody,

Suppose, if I have thousands users in an organization, and I have to put 100 users in one group which I have newly created. How could I do it? With usermod command, I can add one user at a time into
the new group. So kindly help me out in the situation.

Regards,

Hrishikesh

amani · 06-21-2008, 10:54 AM

first make the list of users with required details and password (or use a password generator) and write a script to do it. In enterprise editions, specific ways will be available.
See the RH system administration book or more recent ones for example.

Best

A. Mani

hrishikesh_am · 06-21-2008, 11:09 AM

Thanks Mani for the quick response, but I know little about writing script, so can you please guide me or give a reference to particular RH system administration book so I can refer.

Regards,

Hrishikesh

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Originally Posted by amani

first make the list of users with required details and password (or use a password generator) and write a script to do it. In enterprise editions, specific ways will be available.
See the RH system administration book or more recent ones for example.

Best

A. Mani

amani · 06-21-2008, 12:14 PM

A Practical Guide to Red Hat® Linux®, Third Edition: Fedora™ Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
By Mark G. Sobell
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub Date: June 27, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-13-228027-2
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-228027-3
Pages: 1168

Linux© Troubleshooting for System Administrators and Power Users
By James Kirkland, David Carmichael, Christopher L. Tinker, Gregory L. Tinker
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub Date: April 27, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-13-185515-8
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-185515-1
Pages: 624

This will be good. The Redhat admin book is older and can be downloaded free.
'RUTE' is very practical too (can be installed in *buntu)