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[Garrett Goebel]

brad wrote:
> Garrett wrote:
> > perl -lnae '`useradd $F[0]`' filename
> >
> > Works for me...
> >
> > Where filename's contents look like:
> >
> > username1       password1
> > username2       password2
> > usernamen       passwordn
> >
> > P.S. These are the kind problems for which Larry Wall
> > created Perl...
>
> This words great for useradd, but how then would you set the password
> for each user?

perl -lnae '`useradd $F[0]` filename
perl -lnae 'print "$F[0]:$F[1]n"' filename | chpasswd

You have to break it into two lines, otherwise both useradd and chpasswd
will attempt to hold a lock on the passwd file...

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Garrett Goebel
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