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From: "Stephen Hurd" <deuce@lordlegacy.org>
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Subject: RE: create multiple user accounts
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 18:14:58 -0600
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> is there a facility to automate the creation of new accounts?
> Say, account1 through account25 with appropriate groupnames
> and home directories; otherwise identical, thank you,
>
> --
> Sean

adduser(8) is what I usually use for just a few (1-20)  If I need to add
hundreds, a script that uses pw(8) is the best.


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