Topic: Adding multiple users

[ellegaarddk]

I'm chinging users on a yearly basis, so once a year I'll have to remove 100 users and add 100 new ones. So I was really looking forward to try the HOWTO by Darrell May - but it won't work!

I'm a complete newbie in the Xnix-world, so the solution might be very simple - here is the problem:

I've made the adduserlist.txt file, and I've copied the e-smith-adduser.sh to the /root; logged on as root I type .e-smith-adduser.sh and ...

this is what I get:

[root@beta root]# ls
adduser          backup_phpws.sql  sg-install  userlist.txt
adduserlist.txt  e-smith-adduser   temp
[root@beta root]# .e-smith-adduser
bash: .e-smith-adduser: command not found

I've checked the file, I can't find anything. I'm running E-Smith ver. 5.5

What am I missing? - or what is it that I don't know?

Thanks

[Dan G.]

Try ./e-smith-adduser, making sure you are in the directory where the script is located.  And try 'chmod +x e-smith-adduser' for good measure.

Dan

[ellegaarddk]

Okay, now I get:

[root@beta root]# ./e-smith-adduser.sh
bash: ./e-smith-adduser.sh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

[Dan G.]

Try this script.  From either your e-smith console or ssh terminal (if you use Windows don't have putty.exe, you should), type this:

wget http://www.optimumnetworks.com/files/e-smith-adduser.sh.gz

Once it's downloaded:

gunzip e-smith-adduser.sh.gz

Then:

./e-smith-adduser.sh


Make sure your userlist file is where UFILE=/root/adduserlist.txt says it should be.

Let me know how it works out.

[Dan G.]

....also, you'll want to type:

'chmod +x e-smith-addusers.sh'  --- to make it executable.

[Nate]

To make it more usefull for me, I changed the script to pull the passwords from the adduserlist.txt file for each user.   I did this because I added around 100 users and I needed decent passwords.  Got the passwords from:

http://www.winguides.com/security/password.php

[Abe Loveless]

If I remember right... to run Darrell's script, you had to do ". e-smith-adduser"

That's "dot space e-smith-adduser".  Of course, I haven't checked this in a long time.  Also, the last time I looked at that script, it created users with random userID's. (The e-smith system typically creates incremental UserID's.)

You might also take a look at this site:
http://www.tech-geeks.org/contrib/loveless/batch_users/

I've made a few modifications, and added a script from Fillippo Carlotti that creates the users with the correct UserID's.

HTH.