Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 23:39:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Ben Pepa <bpepa@msn.bc.ca> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: importing users Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980615232631.18693A-100000@freight.msn.bc.ca>
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Hi: I'm looking for a script or program that will allow us to easilly import users from our schools database (and also be able to merge them in the future and delete the graduates) onto our FreeBSD server as user accounts. We have 2000+ students and adding them manually would take weeks. The database we export from the school system is (or can be) comma delimted or fixed-field length containing: firstname,lastname,address1,address2,city,province,postalcode,homephone,workphone,emergencyphone,grade,homeroom It would have to: 1) Take the firstname and lastname to generate a username (IE: Ben Pepa --> bpepa) 2) Chop the longernames downto 8 charactors 3) Make duplicate usernames unique (John F Smith, John D Smith --> jfsmith / jdsmith or even jsmith1, jsmith2, etc...) 4) Able to take names and delete them as a batch (say, when our grade 12's graduate, can take the list of graduates and delete their user account) 5) Assign temporary passwords -- maybe their address or postal code Is their any program that does this, or something close to this? Thanks for any input; Ben To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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