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- Go to Babbage, find /Admin/makeManyUsers.pl<br /> | - Go to Babbage, find /Admin/makeManyUsers.pl<br /> | ||
- Feed your input fileinto makeManyUsers.pl<br /> | - Feed your input fileinto makeManyUsers.pl<br /> | ||
- Using this syntax: perl ./makeManyUsers.pl newUsers 13757 100 | |||
- This creates users with the real and usernames from the file newUsers, starting with ID 13757 (and incrementing up), in the usergroup 100. | |||
- Send password.out to whoever needs it.<br /> | - Send password.out to whoever needs it.<br /> | ||
Revision as of 15:09, 11 September 2012
Creating Users
- Create file in this format:
- WARNING: Blank lines in the file cause problems.
username Real name
- Go to Sammett, grep through /etc/passwd to make sure that your users don't already exist.
- Go to Babbage, find /Admin/makeManyUsers.pl
- Feed your input fileinto makeManyUsers.pl
- Using this syntax: perl ./makeManyUsers.pl newUsers 13757 100
- This creates users with the real and usernames from the file newUsers, starting with ID 13757 (and incrementing up), in the usergroup 100.
- Send password.out to whoever needs it.