RE: [cobalt-users] Adding Mass Users Revisited

[Super Dave <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, heheh I barked before I bit, I read the manpage right after I sent
that message.

David


On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Greg O'Lone wrote:

> 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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