[rhn-users] Mass Usernames and Directories
Craig M. Jameson
cjarith at comcast.net
Fri Aug 4 22:43:53 UTC 2006
Is there a problem with just
copying /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/gshadow, and /etc/group from the
old install to the new one?
Craig.
On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 11:02 -0700, Mark Maggelet wrote:
> how about: (from inside the dir with names)
>
> for i in `/bin/ls -1`
> do
> useradd -p genericpwd $i
> chown $i $i
> done
>
>
> Bill Watson wrote:
> > The way I did this was to create a text file with:
> > useradd -g users -m -p -d direct4me xxxxx99 mugwhump
> > useradd -g users -m -p -d directory2 xxxxx99 otheruser
> > useradd -g users -m -p xxxxx99 another
> >
> > The first 2 with the -d option create the specific directory for the
> > user, the 3rd one uses the default /home/another
> >
> > Then from the root command line prompt:
> > # sh ./textfile-that-I-created
> >
> > Bill Watson
> > bill at magicdigits.com <mailto:bill at magicdigits.com>
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > *From:* rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com] *On Behalf Of *Vincent Matyi
> > *Sent:* Friday, August 04, 2006 10:27 AM
> > *To:* Red Hat Network Users List
> > *Subject:* [rhn-users] Mass Usernames and Directories
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have a massive directory of users that I've migrated to a new install.
> >
> > I will have to create a new user, one by one, and point them back to
> > their directory. And, them ownership and passwords.
> >
> > My question to this list is their a way to speed this up?
> >
> > Potentially a command that will create usernames based on each name
> > of the containing directory, one generic password, and ownership to
> > the directory.
> >
> > Thanks for any feedback,
> > Vincent
> >
> >
> > On Aug 4, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Ted Marshall wrote:
> >
> > At least in FC3 and later, under Gnome, I use
> > "Desktop->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media". I assume that
> > this works on RHEL 4 also.
> >
> >> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 15:53:20 -0700
> >> From: "Brad SHARPE" <bsharpe at mdacorporation.com
> >> <mailto:bsharpe at mdacorporation.com>>
> >> Subject: [rhn-users] Disabling USB drive automounts
> >> To: <rhn-users at redhat.com <mailto:rhn-users at redhat.com>>
> >> Message-ID:
> >> <57F67688A8D72449AC80164DA9820831730809 at VMXYVR1.ds.mda.ca
> >> <mailto:57F67688A8D72449AC80164DA9820831730809 at VMXYVR1.ds.mda.ca>>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Has anyone had experience disabling the automount system in RHEL 4. I
> >> would like to turn off automounting of any USB/FIREWIRE drives
> >> attached
> >> to the machine. The key is that I can't turn the USB ports off because
> >> I'm using USB mice and keyboards.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the help.
> >> Brad
> >
> >
> >
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