Batch creating linux accounts

[Stéphane Bruno]

Can you be more specific? I am planning to offer the service to a local 
ISP, but I never did this before. Can you point me to some resources 
where I can find information about the more professional way to create 
and maintain a high number of accounts under Linux for email accounts 
for an ISP, the industry standard? Are you talking about using NIS or 
some other kind of centralized information management for accounts? And 
how do you "import" the accounts along with their password (the ISP has 
a system running on Windows and will probably export its existing 
accounts under a format which I can import into Linux).

Thanks in advance for your help.

Stéphane

Rudolf Kastl wrote:

>
>
> 2006/1/17, Stéphane Bruno <sbruno at rddh.org.ht 
> <mailto:sbruno at rddh.org.ht>>:
>
>     Hello,
>
>     I need to create about 3000 user accounts on a Linux box (Fedora
>     Core 4
>     or Red Hat Enterprise Linux). Is there a tool that allows you to
>     create
>     those accounts programmatically, with the usernames and passwords
>     taken
>     from a text file, for example?
>
>     Thanks,
>     Stéphane
>
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>  
> why not use ldap or another more professional approach? after you 
> settuped your active directory you can just run 
> system-config-authentication and have them imported.
>  
> regards,
> rudolf kastl
>
>  
>

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