Create multiple accounts & SSH

guptawizard · 01-13-2005, 01:50 PM

Hi all,

I need to create a (large!) number of new user accounts on an FTP server. I have a list of names and (initial) passwords. Can anyone tell me how to use this file as parameter input to a script to do the create (an example would be nice!)? I want these users NOT to have shell access.

Also, as we will be using SSH, is it possible to create the keys in the same manner if I create a file of passphrases? This is because we don't want the users to have any shell access.

Many thanks,

John.

david_ross · 01-13-2005, 02:25 PM

Welcome to LQ.

Creating a script like that should be fairly simple, can you post an example line from your input file and a list of the commands you would run manually to create the user accounts.

homestead1000 · 01-13-2005, 02:27 PM

this is quick and simple.

#!/bin/bash

list=`cat /root/personList`;

for item in $list;
do
useradd $item;
done