Re: [ILUG-BOM] creating user from /etc/passwd file ?

On 5/20/08, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org wrote:

On 20-May-08, at 6:16 PM, Devdas Bhagat wrote:

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Suppose for eg : i have abt 1000 unix users, and due to some unforseen reasons my server crashes, however i have copy of the /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow file , Now is there a way to directly add those ( 1000 odd user ) to my system with out actually manually using the useradd command

chpasswd(8)

can also be done with webmin

while checking out the chpasswd i can accross the newuser command

i manually added the following line in my /etc/passwd file then i ran the "newuser" command meghanand:x:2010:2010::/home/website/meghanand.com:/sbin/nologin

#newusers /etc/passwd

this created the the home dir /home/website/meghanand.com

:-)