On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 01:42:09PM -0500, John H. Clark, III wrote: > Plenty of information on changing account information but I need to > create new linux accounts under program control. At least under Debian, the combination of /usr/sbin/adduser, /etc/adduser.conf, and /usr/local/sbin/adduser.local give us pretty much automatic account creation. We run a script that calls adduser with a few non-default arguments, and then adduser.local (which adduser automatically calls if it exists): - fingers a central campus computer to determine if the new account is a student or faculty/staff - adds the new user to the appropriate student or faculty/staff mailing list - scrapes the user's real name from central finger information to generate the GECOS field - adds a volume for the new user into our tape backup scheme and all we have to do is 'adduserscriptname newusername'. -- Mike Renfro / R&D Engineer, Center for Manufacturing Research, 931 372-3601 / Tennessee Technological University -- renfro@tntech.edu
