topic Re: Create multiple user account with default users group in Operating System - HP-UX

Create multiple user account with default users group

John Ferro — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:31:29 GMT

Hello

I'm running HP-UX 11iv2, I would like to create multiple user accounts with one shot... defaults are:

User group: users
Password: xxxxx
shell: /usr/bin/sh

is there any command or scrip i can use it?

Pls. your quick response will be appreciated.
Regards,

Re: Create multiple user account with default users group

Johnson Punniyalingam — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:03:00 GMT

>>>is there any command or scrip i can use it?

Yes, useradd (man useradd command)

>>>or scrip i can use it?

You can try below script from below mentioned thread

http://forums13.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?admit=109447627+1270465141996+28353475&threadId=1221111

Re: Create multiple user account with default users group

Dennis Handly — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 10:18:09 GMT

You can use useradd.sam with a script to create multiple users with passwords. See this thread:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1358395

Re: Create multiple user account with default users group

Michael Steele_2 — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:13:52 GMT

Funny, I have yet to find a script that will run the passwd command.

Re: Create multiple user account with default users group

Tim Nelson — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:52:19 GMT

other than useradd.sam

and you are using Trusted Passwords
and if you do not need to set the pass to anything specific
and you do not care about userids

then the below would work..(more specifics should get you more details)

cat user.list|while read list
do
useradd -m $list
modprpw -x $list
done

(where user.list is a file with valid user anames, one per line)

Re: Create multiple user account with default users group

Doug O'Leary — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:00:15 GMT

>>Funny, I have yet to find a script that will run the passwd command.

and expect

and perl using the Expect module...

Search these forums; the question's been asked/answered multiple times.

Doug

Re: Create multiple user account with default users group

Doug O'Leary — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:04:30 GMT

Hey;

Having reread that, it sounds snarky; wasn't meant to be - humble apologies.

Searching the forums is still a valid point, though: The first three links of 50 are as follows:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=913052

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1392985

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1249875

Doug

Re: Create multiple user account with default users group

John Ferro — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 10:22:30 GMT

Thanks to all of you for your gentle response.

My problem solved....