Topic: adding multiple users quickly

[sam russo]

I would love to see some way you can create multiple users simultaneouly. Maybe by reading in a delimited text file formatted in a certain way.
This would take the pain out of creating each user via a slow GUI.
Has there been any consideration for this request in the past?.. I know that most NOS' have some sort of utility to allow this to happen.
thanks
sam russo

[Darrell May]

http://netsourced.com/e-smith/howto/howto-addusers.html

Darrell

[Roussell]

Hi
Your script is very useful.
Could you tell me how we can add users in the e-smith when they exist in our NT domain with a loginids which are already concatenated firstname.lastname as shown below

NT Loginid;Firstname;Lastname;Password;Department
edwina.scott;Edwina;Scott;blah;Telecom
testuser;Test;User;testme;IT
thomas.james;Thomas;James;safeword;Engineering
donald.duck;Donald;Duck;Helpdesk

Thanks for any help
Roussell

[Greg O]

Darrell, maybe you're the one to answer this, since you're an netsourced.com user (:

I'd really like to get that script/howto again, but the page is down at the moment - is that permanent? If so, could someone send me the details please? It's rather urgent.

Cheers,
Greg.

[Tue Arnkil]

I'm running e-smith on a school, and it's very usefull to be able to add multiple users.
I have a problem with the e-smith-adduser.sh script.
I get an error in line 31 : "fi"
Should the script work with the original e-smith (4.1) installation, or do I need to add anything to make the script work ?

Tue Arnkil
Marienhoffskolen, Denmark