topic Re: user creation in multiple server in Operating System - Linux

user creation in multiple server

joinsiva — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:00:20 GMT

Hi all,

I am facing a problem in password setting, when i create a user in multiple server through script, can somebody help in setting the password through script ?.

thanks
siva

Re: user creation in multiple server

joinsiva — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 01:14:49 GMT

Hi..

All my servers are running linux as os.

thanks
siva

Re: user creation in multiple server

Kodjo Agbenu — Mon, 21 Nov 2005 02:32:40 GMT

Hi Siva,

Supposing that we create a file named "mylist" with user and password list :

user1 pass1
user2 pass2
user3 pass3
...
...

I would use secure shell like this :

cat mylist | while read user pass; do ssh -l root "useradd -p $pass $user"

Good lcuk.
Kodjo