<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.12.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> 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!). 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. On Wed, 2007-10-01 at 14:05 -0500, David Trask wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> Clay Berlo <<A HREF="mailto:clay.berlo@dsbn.edu.on.ca">clay.berlo@dsbn.edu.on.ca</A>> writes: >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 [ <A HREF="http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/962/">http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/962/</A>, >]<A HREF="http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/962/">http://paste.ubuntu-nl.org/962/</A> but I'm not sure how long that site >holds on to things... > > > -- >Clay Berlo <[ mailto:<A HREF="mailto:clay.berlo@dsbn.edu.on.ca">clay.berlo@dsbn.edu.on.ca</A> ]<A HREF="mailto:clay.berlo@dsbn.edu.on.ca">clay.berlo@dsbn.edu.on.ca</A>> >DSBN Technical Services >-- >edubuntu-users mailing list ><A HREF="mailto:edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">edubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</A> >Modify settings or unsubscribe at: ><A HREF="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users</A> 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. David N. Trask Technology Teacher/Director Vassalboro Community School <A HREF="mailto:dtrask@vcsvikings.org">dtrask@vcsvikings.org</A> (207)923-3100 </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- Clay Berlo <<A HREF="mailto:clay.berlo@dsbn.edu.on.ca">clay.berlo@dsbn.edu.on.ca</A>> DSBN Technical Services </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BODY> </HTML>