Creating users: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 16:43, 10 September 2014

- 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: ./makeManyUsers.pl newUsers 1 100

- This creates users with the real and usernames from the file newUsers, starting with ID 1 (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.

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 == 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 />
-- (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!
-- 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 />
-- 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.
+- Using this syntax: ./makeManyUsers.pl newUsers 1 100
+- This creates users with the real and usernames from the file newUsers, starting with ID 1 (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 />