RE: Offtopic: Setting Passwords

["Mark Orenstein" <morenstein@home.com>]

I used Linuxconf in command line mode (userconf) to create a shell script
which added about 450 users to a Redhat 6 Samba server.  Browse down the
Linxconf help to see the command line formats.  It was the only way that I
could find to easily add disk quotas for each user.  Before running the
script, I used linuxconf in full screen mode to set a default user quota.

I also used smbpasswd to initialize their Samba passwords to null in a
similar script.  Our plan is to enable password setting in the W95 control
panel for about two weeks so each user can set his own Samba password.
After that, we will disallow the use of null passwords.

Below are example lines.

userconf --adduser    gbalboni     hsstaff    "Gail Balboni"
/bin/bash

smbpasswd -n -a       gbalboni

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-seul-edu@seul.org [mailto:owner-seul-edu@seul.org]On Behalf
> Of Harry McGregor
> Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 2:42 AM
> To: seul-edu@seul.org
> Subject: Re: Offtopic: Setting Passwords
>
>
> I don't know exactly what you need.. I had to create 700 accounts (no
> passwords) for students at corbett elementary school.
>
> We did up a script that auto creates the home dir (out of the
> /home/student home dir on the nfs server) and creates the users on the
> NIS server, it runs make in /var/yp to sync the nis database, and
> everything is done via ssh2.
>
> If someone would like the script (.2 beta), email me priveatly, and I
> will send it and the companion script off of the nfs server to you.
>
> IT is GPLed, and if you make changes to it, please email them to the
> authors (friends of a friend of mine authored it).
>
>
> 			Harry
>
> On Tue,
> 7 Sep 1999, Bill Tihen -- STAFF wrote:
>
> > I am using the new Redhat 6.0 and need to generate 300 new
> accounts.  I have a text file exported from our school database.
> I am randomly generating passwords -- however, the new RH6.0
> version of useradd doesn not seem to use the -p (password) option anymore.
> >
> > How do I automatically enter passwords with account creation?
> >
> > Thanks Bill
> >
>