Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 12:45:49 -0600 From: John-David Childs <jdc@denver.net> To: Paul.Dekkers@cgu.edusurf.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how do I add many users simple, and how many users on 1 sys? Message-ID: <19970825124549.33625@denver.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970825153210.124F-100000@gromit.nev.ml.org>; from Paul Dekkers on Mon, Aug 25, 1997 at 03:36:23PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.970825153210.124F-100000@gromit.nev.ml.org>
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On Monday August 1997, Paul Dekkers <paul@nev.ml.org> had this to say about "how do I add many users simple, and how many users on 1 sys?": > Hi > > How many accounts am I able to put on one system, In theory I think you can put 65534 accounts on FreeBSD 2.2X (including the "default" accounts like root, toor, man, news, etc.)...I believe 3.0 changed the size of UID's. > and what's the best method of making 700 accounts, with numbers from > 1 to 700? (and e.g. the passwords for users 1-100 disabled, 101-200 > something like "safe", and so on?) The gecos field can be the user > number (, but is there also a simple method to take the names from a > database? (e.g. file with number:name)) The 'pw' command should do everything you want. You can write a *sh script (sh, csh, etc.) or you could use Perl to do most everything you want. See also the 'adduser' program (a perl script). -- John-David Childs (JC612) Enterprise Internet Solutions System Administrator @denver.net/Internet-Coach/@ronan.net & Network Engineer 901 E 17th Ave, Denver 80218 As of this^H^H^H^H next week, passwords will be entered in Morse code.
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