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From: paulz@sco.COM (W. Paul Zola)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: adding a mess of users
Summary: use 'addxusers' instead
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Date: 15 Jan 91 21:34:18 GMT
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In article <663@uecok.ECOK.EDU> bw@uecok.ecok.edu (Bill Walker CS Faculty) writes:
}In desperation, I have put together a combination of shell
}scripts and C programs that can add a LOT of users to our
}Altos 5000 running SCO "Unix" by reading the user info
}out of a single file that is prepared with an editor.
}
[deleted]

I *strongly* suggest that you add your users via the 'addxusers'
command.  This command takes a file in Xenix password file format
and creates entries in the Protected Password database.  Encrypted
passwords and password aging information are preserved and entered
into the TCB files.  It was designed, in part, to facilitate writing
shell scripts and programs that need to create a large number of
users at a time.

This utility is availible in SCO UNIX 3.2 version 2.0.  If you have
ODT 1.0, it's on the UFE upgrade.  If you have SCO UNIX 3.2 version 0.0,
you can get 'addxusers' as part of Support Level Supplement (SLS)
unx223, which is available via the usual channels.

}
}Bill Walker
}
}East Central University
}Ada, Oklahoma
}e-mail:  bw@cs.ecok.edu

I hope this has been helpful, and of general interest.

-
Paul Zola			Software Support Engineer 
				paulz@sco.COM 
Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.  - Emily Saliers
    DISCLAIMER: I speak for myself, and not for SCO.