am switching from RedHat to Mandrake10. All went successfully, now I am switching the email server, but the challenge that I am facing is the popusers accounts, I have 300 employee, and I am wandering if there is a way or scrip that dos bulk users account and generate random passwds?

Thanks to you All

well, you might write yourself a script.

Random nr generation is fairly easy using BASH, and the rest kan be hardcoded\read from a file (usernames???).
You'll have to execute that kind of script as root

Great, I am writing a script.

Has anyone migrate email account from RedHat to Mandrake? There are very much similar, but the way MD encrypts the password are different than RH.

Here is a usfull scrip that worked great, I would like to share it with who wonts to createEmailAccounts.

##This script generate random passwd and output them to a text file.

<?

// Create multiple mail accounts
if (count($argv) < 3)
{
echo "Usage: php createMultipleEmailAccounts.php userListFile passwordLength\n";
exit;
}

$fileName = $argv[1];
$passwordLength = $argv[2];
$fileArr = file("$fileName");
$passwordCharacterString = "222333444555666777888999@$%^*()+ABCDEFGHIJKLMNPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijkmnopqrstuvwxyz";
$passwordLength = $passwordLength;

$output = "";
foreach ($fileArr as $lineNum => $line)
{
$username = trim($line);

$password = "";
while(strlen($password) < $passwordLength)
{
$randNum = rand(0, strlen($passwordCharacterString));
$passwordChar = substr($passwordCharacterString, $randNum, 1);
$password .= $passwordChar;
}

exec("createmailaccount.exp $username $password");
$output .= "$username:$password\n";
}
echo $output;
$outputFile = fopen("userlist.txt", 'a');
fwrite($outputFile, $output);
fclose($outputFile);

?>









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This script create Madir, Note you need both.


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#!/usr/bin/expect --

if { [llength $argv] < 2 } {
send_user "Usage: createmailaccount.exp username password\n"
exit
}
set timeout 10
set username [lindex $argv 0]
set password [lindex $argv 1]

send_user "user: $username password: $password\n"

send_user [exec /usr/sbin/adduser -g popusers -s /bin/false -m $username]
send_user [exec echo $username >> /etc/ftpusers]

send_user [exec maildirmake /home/$username/Maildir]
send_user [exec chown -R $username /home/$username/Maildir]
send_user [exec chgrp -R popusers /home/$username/Maildir]

send_user [exec echo ./Maildir/ > /home/$username/.qmail]
send_user [exec chown -R $username /home/$username/.qmail]
send_user [exec chgrp -R popusers /home/$username/.qmail]

spawn passwd $username

set send_slow {1 .02}
expect {
timeout { send_error "Timed out waiting for password 1."; exit 1; }
"New UNIX password: " { sleep 0.3; send -s "$password\r"; }
}

expect {
timeout { send_error "Timed out waiting for password. 2"; exit 1; }
"assword: " { sleep 0.3; send -s "$password\r"; }
}

expect {
timeout { send_error "Timed out waiting for successfully"; exit 1; }
"successfully"
}