Batch creating linux accounts

Tue Jan 17 15:02:51 UTC 2006

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 09:32 -0500, Stéphane Bruno wrote:
> 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?

Maybe the command newusers fits...

# newusers users_and_clear_passwords_file

Best regards.

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