Greetings, On 8/3/09, David Leon <dleon741210@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello guys > > I have a new Centos 5.3 running, and I have a text file with a bunch > of accounts (more than 100) that I should create > . > File format is like this > > user1 pasword1 > user2 passwrd2 > .... > > How can I do this task easier than creating user one by one by hand? > Need some help for building an script to achieve this task > > Thanks > David I have used newusers command in conjunction with a text file in passwd file type fields. man newusers should be your friend here and if they are to be replicated across nodes as in a cluster, wrap it up in a scrip with scp for /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow HTH Thanks and regards Rajagopal _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos