Showing posts with label Shell script to create multiple users at a time.. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Shell script to create multiple users


cat  useradd.sh

#!/bin/sh

for i in `more userlist`
do
echo $i
useradd $i
echo tester!23 | passwd $i --stdin
echo; echo “User $username’s password changed!”

done

Create a file userlist and specify the username you would like to create the user account and run the above script. Then the user account are created with the default password 'tester!23'