RE: [cobalt-users] Adding Mass Users Revisited

["Greg O'Lone" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave-

According to the manpage, you should be able to add a -x option to the
system line, like this:

system("/usr/sbin/cobalt/adduser -g $sitename -u $username
-f\"$fullname\" -p $passwd -e $email -q $quota -x");

And have it turn on FP extensions for the user.

--
Greg O'Lone, President
Stretched Out Software, Inc
http://www.stretchedout.com




> -----Original Message-----
> From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Super Dave
> Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2002 3:40 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] Adding Mass Users Revisited
> 
> 
> ok I have searched the archives and found 2 different 
> scripts, one of which adds the users, but does not add them 
> to the gui, and one that adds the users to the gui but does 
> not add them with frontpage extensions and the /~username.
> 
> Does anyone have, or know of a script that will do all of the above?
> 
> the scripts that I have found are the one at 
> http://list.cobalt.com/pipermail/cobalt-developers/2001-May/03
2353.html
which does not add to the gui, running the script as root.

and this little one I found on the archives:

#!/usr/bin/perl

# pass a comma separated list of
#
# username,fullname,password,email
#

# the file which contains the users to be
my $addfile = 'users.dat';

# the site to which the useres should be added
my $sitename = "site1";

my $quota = 10;       # Disk quota in MB
my $fpx = "on";     # Front Page Support
my $apop = "off";    # Apop support
my $admin = "off";   # User is admin or not
my $shell = "off";   # allow shell access

open IN, $addfile;
flock (IN,2);
@userdata = <IN>;
close IN;

foreach $usr (@userdata) {
        chomp($usr);
        ($username, $fullname, $passwd, $email) = split(",",$usr);
        print "Adding $username:$fullname:$passwd:$email\n";
    system("/usr/sbin/cobalt/adduser -g $sitename -u $username
-f\"$fullname\" -p $passwd -e $email -q $quota"); }

any help would be appreciated, as I have 629 users that I desperatley
need to migrate to this raq 4 and I an reluctant to hand add them.

also is there any way around the 12 character max usernames and the 3
character minumum passwords?

David


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