Re: [qmailtoaster] import a list of users

[Steve Huff]

On Oct 3, 2008, at 2:52 PM, Kyle Quillen wrote:

Yea i looked in there but the script below was all that I could find and that will just set the users passwords to a default pass how would I modify the script to look at the txt file for all the info?

while read FIRSTNAME LASTNAME USERNAME PASS

and it'll do what you want.

-steve

well, if you populate the script in the format "Firstname Lastname Username Password", then you can change the while line to

#!/bin/sh
#
#  BULK USER ADDING FOR QMAIL TOASTER
#

# helped me with.
# Still very manual, but Work in Progress
#
# Suggestions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#
# Change a few variables and you are good to go
#
#
# Location of the users file
# Rememeber that the users file is in the format
# Firstname Lastname Username
USERS_FILE="/path/to/file.txt"
# The mail domain to which users are created
#
MAILDOMAIN="@domain.com"
# the vadduser command
QMAILADD="/home/vpopmail/bin/vadduser"
# Select a default password for all users
PASS="mypass"
#Specify the Default Quota_in_bytes for your Users
# 10 MB = 10 x 1024 x 1024
QUOTA="10485760"
#Fun starts here No more variables to change below this line
cat ${USERS_FILE} | \
while read FIRSTNAME LASTNAME USERNAME
do
 echo "adding the user: $USERNAME"

done
#







-----Original Message-----
From: news on behalf of Eric Shubert
Sent: Fri 10/3/2008 12:07 PM
To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com
Subject:  Re: [qmailtoaster] import a list of users

Kyle Quillen wrote:

# Created after I ran into an issue of creating 20,000 users on my toaster! # Initial ideas come from a script that PakOgah "[EMAIL PROTECTED] " $QMAILADD -q $QUOTA -c "$FIRSTNAME $LASTNAME" $USERNAME $MAILDOMAIN $PASS

All,

I have  a listing of roughly 900 emails that I have to import to a


Thanks
Q

toaster. I already have the server up and running and I have the list in a comma seperated txt file but how do I do a bulk add of the users.

Have you forgotten the wiki? ;)

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-Eric 'shubes'


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