Create multiple user account with default users group

[John Ferro]

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,

[Johnson Punniyalingam]

>>>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

[Dennis Handly]

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

[Michael Steele_2]

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

[Tim Nelson]

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)

[Doug O'Leary]

>>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

[Doug O'Leary · Accepted solution]

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

[John Ferro]

Thanks to all of you for your gentle response.

My problem solved....