On 05Apr2008 09:46, mark <m.roth2006@xxxxxxx> wrote: | Anil Saini wrote: | > i need a shell script that can create multiple users.... | > i have already done it with newuser command..and worked fine | > is thr any other way to create multiple user accouts and at the same it will | > generate some random password... | | Generate a random password? And how will you know what it is to tell the user? By recording it in a file and printing them on little slips of paper, then erasing the file? Hand the printouts to each user when they show up? Force them to change them. | And how many users are you adding at once? I've never added more than one or | two at a time, and my standard new user is set up with a password that is | *required* to be changed at first login... and I give them all the same: | changeme. <g> This is a better approach indeed. I used to make accounts without passwords (not blank, disabled) and get the users to enter a password when they show up the first day. However, this kind of thing doesn't work at places like universities where 1000 new people show up at session start; then you do need to give them all passwords. -- Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Nope. First, you need to learn how to use vi, the editor from hell (vi vi vi -- the number of the beast), ... - Dan Sorenson, DoD#1066, <z1dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
