Useradd script

[Abhijeet_3]

I need to craete more than 600 users.

Is any script available for it.
I need to specify user id as its Emp id. & as comment is First name and Last name.

Password will be this loginname .

Regards
Abhijeet

[harry d brown jr]

If you have employee ID's less than 1000, then I suggest you add 100000 to the employee id's so that they don't conflict with SYSTEM id's.

As for a script, you can use vi to build one rather quickly, provided you have the list of employee names and ID's available. The hardest part will be creating unique USER NAMES.

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harry d brown jr

[Muthukumar_5]

You can do it as,


--- employee.log ---
# ID Login First Name ast Name
1200 Muthu Muthukumar Kandasamy
....
....


#!/bin/sh
print "Enter group name to add all employee"
read group
groupadd $group

while read line; do

$(echo $line | grep -qEv '^$|^#')
if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]
then
user=$(echo $line | awk '{ print $2 }')
comment=$(echo $line | awk '{ print $3" "$4 }')
uid=$(echo $line | awk '{ print $1 }')
useradd -u $uid -c "$comment" -g $group $user
fi
done

## end ###

Try for two users and delete it. Try again to all.
hth.

[Abhijeet_3]

Thx ,

Suppose I have text file with above information , how to use this text file with your script.

[Matthew_50]

save and upload attach ch_pass binary file to server, and chmod 700 to it,

#cat userlist
60000 loginname1 Tom,Cruise
60001 loginname2 Jerry,Maquire
60002 loginname3 Kevin,Mitnick

#cat script_useradd.sh
#!/bin/ksh
cat userlist|while read $uid $login $comment
do
echo "Adding ... $uid $loginname"
useradd -u $uid -g users -d /home/$loginname -c $comment -m $loginname
./ch_pass $loginname $loginname
done

# chmod 700 script_useradd.sh

simply just execute ./script_useradd.sh

this are sample, change the script to fill your requirement.

[Steven E. Protter]

while read -r userame
do
# insert the above code here.

done < textfile

This will let you read through the file and process the entire textfile with the code provided above.

SEP

[Matthew_50]

forgot to say, that ch_pass used to change user's login password in one line, since every user's password are same as self username, so I think, at this moment, the password security doesn't that matter.