Which are the few 'other' things that your script do? ____ ____ o ~ // // / __ \ // \ // //'''' //\\ //_____// / / / / //___ / // // // \\ // // / /_/ / // \ // // //____\\ // // \____/ // \ // \\.... // \\ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comtec Net Romania ---------------------------------------------------- WEB: www.eltop.ro IRC: irc.eltop.ro NEWS: news.eltop.ro ---------------------------------------------------- Horia Chirculescu root@xxxxxxxx Connex: +40 723 205 086 Zapp: +40 788 374 059 On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Matthew Harrison wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:55:25AM -0400, David Tice wrote: > > We add new users through a script that sets up home directories on > > different machines. If they are a student they on one machine if they are > > faculty they are on different and so on. Our mail comes into one machine > > and then sent to where their home directory lives. ( I did not set it up > > this way but I have to deal with it) I need to set up aliases for everyone > > who is new and I am doing it by hand. > > Does anyone have a script that I can use? > > Hi David, > A little while ago, I wrote some perl scripts that take a text file > with usernames like so: > > <user file> > user1 > user2 > user3 > </user file> > > then creates the unix account, sets a default password, sets up the > sendmail virtusertable, and a few other things. You should be able to > use it to create the aliases file instead of the virtusertable without > much trouble. > > I will send it over when I get home (I'm at work now), in a couple of > hours. > > HTH > > -- > Mat Harrison | email: matth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 3d Computer Systems Ltd. | tel: ++441249 460 766 > 11 New Road | fax: ++441249 460 583 > Chippenham | gpgid: 0x9FE38627 > Wiltshire > SN13 9RW > England > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html