Hi

I am creating multiple users by editing a file say "multiusers" and added such that


user1: password:501:501::/home/user1:/bin/bash
user50: password:550:550:/home/user50:/bin/bash

(Note: no space between : and p)

After saving i gave

#/usr/sbin/newusers multiusers

All users are created,but when i do su -l user1
i got the prompt -bash-3.00$ instead of user1@machinename$. Is there something missed in the file.Please clarify.

Regards

I've not used this command, but from the man page what you did looks right. (For the user1 line that is -- it looks like you dropped a colon in the user50 line, but I am guessing that was just a typo in your post.) So I don't know what went wrong, but I might be able to point you in the right direction for trouble shooting. The problem is an environmental variable called PS1. By default it's value is \s-\v\$. You can check that easily by:

This value gives the prompt you are showing. (Look at bash's man page for an explanation of PS1 and how the special characters -- those preceded with a backslash -- are interpreted.) Most distros will use one or more of bash's startup/configuration files to alter this to something nicer. I am talking about files like /etc/profile /etc/bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc, and files in /etc/profile.d. You might look through these files and see what is different for the "normal" accounts and the new ones. One thing I would definitely look at is to make sure the files from /etc/skel got copied into the newly created account's home directories.

Hi

Thanks for the reply.Its typo problem .I browsed here in the forum
and found one good program createusers 1.3.4, which is creating multiple users as i expected but with one problem.In that sample file
they provide 5 users user1 to user5.I just checks the tool is working
but in /var/spool/mail directories i found the owner is changed for all the users.Here is the list,

-rw-rw---- 1 test1 mail 0 Jul 5 11:41 user1
-rw-rw---- 1 user1 mail 0 Jul 5 11:41 user2
-rw-rw---- 1 user2 mail 0 Jul 5 11:41 user3
-rw-rw---- 1 user3 mail 0 Jul 5 11:41 user4
-rw-rw---- 1 507 mail 0 Jul 5 11:41 user5

Any thoughts ?

Regards

createusers is a bash script. You should be able to read through it to see what it is doing. There would appear to be either a problem with the script or a problem with the config file.

Are you aware that createusers "also sets up new users' home directories for personal Web space with Apache?"