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Date:      Sat, 13 Mar 1999 17:17:25 +1000
From:      Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au>
To:        Joe Schwartz <rjoe@sierrahill.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bulk account creation [was: rjoe]
Message-ID:  <19990313071725.5516.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199903122013.OAA23622@sierrahill.com>  of Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:13:45 CST
References:  <199903122013.OAA23622@sierrahill.com> 

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Please use meaningful subject headers, such as the one I have
chosen.  I have removed freebsd-net, as this is a clear case of
something for -questions.

> They have about 3000 e-mail accounts. I can get a text file from an
> Excel spread sheet which has account info in it. (I haven't seen it yet)
> 
> Does anyone know of an easy way to create all these accounts? or has 
> anyone done something similar?
>  
> Perhaps a combination of perl & expect?

Hardly.  Try "man pw sh", whip up a trivial script, and you're
done.  If you have problems, come back when you have the format
of the input data and somebody will probably help.

-- 
Greg Black <gjb@acm.org>



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