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Date:      Tue, 7 Jan 2003 13:08:53 -0600
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1042398533.f8c466@mired.org>
To:        Lauri Laupmaa <mauri@minut.ee>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: creating user dirs 
Message-ID:  <15899.9669.36074.518050@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <6FDBFE65-2235-11D7-8967-0003931E3224@minut.ee>
References:  <6FDBFE65-2235-11D7-8967-0003931E3224@minut.ee>

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In <6FDBFE65-2235-11D7-8967-0003931E3224@minut.ee>, Lauri Laupmaa <mauri@minut.ee> typed:
> Hi
> 
> Is there a simple solution for creating all user directories under 
> /home ?
> So, I have clean /home filesystem and hundreds of users in /etc/*passwd
> Hopefully there is some simple command or script :)

You can get the list from /etc/password easily enough with awk. I'd do:

	USERS=$(awk -F: '$3 > 999 { print $1 }' | grep -v nobody)

which assumes you follow the convention of new users being above
1000. Given that list, you can easily create the directories:

cd /home
for user in $(awk -F: '$3 > 999 { print $1 }' | grep -v nobody)
do
  mkdir $user
  # Copy whatever else you want into place, say /etc/skel/.*
  chown -R $user $user
done

	<mike

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