Creating users

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: ./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.