20 May
2008
20 May
'08
11:51 a.m.
HI i had a small query, i wanted to know if it is possible to create a home directory for a particular user by just editing the /etc/passwd file.
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
( yes, it is possible to write loop script that will read the /etc/passwd file and create the users ) but is there any other way to do this.
thanks for your feed back
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Regards
Agnello Dsouza
www.linux-vashi.blogspot.com