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- From: st1y2@elroy.uh.edu (Gray, William W.)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: Re: Bulkloader??
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 01:02 CST
- Organization: University of Houston
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- In article <1993Jan5.174407.18757@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>, dave@bigdog.engr.arizona.edu (Dave Pottinger) writes...
- >I am faced with the task of added 400+ users within the next day or two
- >to our Ultrix system. Recently coming from VMS, I was mildly surprised
- >not to immediately find a program (we call ours a bulkloader) that would
- >add a bunch of accts non-interactively via a list of some sort. Does
- >this exist anywhere in Unixland and might someone point me in the right
- >direction?? Thanks in advance. If this is a FAQ, I apologize, but I
- >couldn't find it (does one exist for this group?).
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- Well, in the past I have written a script file that adds the
- users, and that seems to work well. You might want to look into
- that option
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