Mass User Creation

[David Trask]

The best way is to grab the smbldap-installer package from the site
http://majen.net/smbldap   untar it and use the createusers script. 
Theres also a password script too.  

Clay Berlo <clay.berlo at dsbn.edu.on.ca> writes:
>Perhaps to make things a bit easier for future searches, you could post
>an URL for that tool to this list?  I know it gets archived and I can
>find pretty much anything I know has been mentioned on it through
>Google.  Googling "mass user creation" seems to get a lot of Windows UMRA
>hits and mention  that "you can whip up a bash script pretty quickly..."
>(but no clear howtos!).
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>Also, I know my script could definitely use some optimization and/or
>cleaning up to make it a bit more user friendly, so perhaps between the
>two sources something better will evolve.
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>On Wed, 2007-10-01 at 14:05 -0500, David Trask wrote: 
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>Clay Berlo <[ mailto:clay.berlo at dsbn.edu.on.ca
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>>Having spent the morning working out a BASH script to create batches of
>>user accounts at once, I'd like to know if anyone else would be
>>interested in this script or has a better one handy that does about the
>>same function.  Basically, my script takes FirstName LastName pairs (one
>>per line) and makes unique user accounts out of them.  It's presently
>>posted at [ [ http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/962/
>]http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/962/,
>>][ http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/962/ ]http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/962/ but
>I'm not sure how long that site
>>holds on to things...
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>Good work!  Although next time you might want to ask first....we already
>have one  :-)  It's part of the Samba/LDAP installer package.   I can post
>it if people want.  Matt Oquist wrote it to take first name last name and
>make unique usernames....etc.
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>David N. Trask
>Technology Teacher/Director
>Vassalboro Community School
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David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Director
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100