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== Creating Users ==
== Creating Users ==
- Create file in this format: <br />
- Go to Sammett, grep through /etc/passwd to make sure that your users don't already exist.<br />
- Go to Babbage, find /root/Admin/makeManyUsers.pl<br />
- Create a file in this format: <br />
- username        Real name <br />
- username        Real name <br />
- (spaces between first / last name, tab between user / real)
- (spaces between first / last name, space between user / real)
- WARNING: Blank lines in the file causes severe problems!
- WARNING: Blank lines in the file causes severe problems!
- Go to Sammett, grep through /etc/passwd to make sure that your users don't already exist.<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
- 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.
- This creates users with the real and usernames from the file newUsers, starting with ID 13757 (and incrementing up), in the usergroup 100.
- ID should start with the last ID in /etc/passwd on sammett, plus one.


- Send password.out to whoever needs it.<br />
- Send password.out to whoever needs it.<br />

Revision as of 15:46, 8 September 2014

Creating Users

- Go to Sammett, grep through /etc/passwd to make sure that your users don't already exist.
- Go to Babbage, find /root/Admin/makeManyUsers.pl
- Create a file in this format:
- username Real name
- (spaces between first / last name, space between user / real) - WARNING: Blank lines in the file causes severe problems! - 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. - ID should start with the last ID in /etc/passwd on sammett, plus one.

- Send password.out to whoever needs it.