No encrypting necessary. Worked with plain text passwords that were in the file.
John
Eric wrote:
> What's the word on how passwords need to be encoded? (Just for
> posterity)
>
> John Hansen wrote:
> > The bulk user script does run as expected. My problem was that the original
> > script used $PASS, and the modified script uses $PASSWORD. I only made
> > modifications in my existing script instead of copying and pasting the
> > entire
> > file in. So, here is the add bulk users script that does work importing
> > users
> > and passwords in case someone else would like to use it. It's the same one
> > posted earlier. Sorry for the confusion. Thanks PakOgah for making the
changes.
> > John
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > #
> > # BULK USER ADDING FOR QMAIL TOASTER
> > #
> > # Created after I ran into an issue of creating 20,000 users on my toaster!
> > # Initial ideas come from a script that PakOgah "pako...@pala.bo-tak.info"
> > # helped me with.
> > # Still very manual, but Work in Progress
> > #
> > # Suggestions to akisa...@ucu.ac.ug
> > #
> > # 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="/usr/local/file1.txt"
> > # The mail domain to which users are created
> > #
> > MAILDOMAIN="@cotterschools.org"
> > # 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="419430400"
> > #Fun starts here No more variables to change below this line
> > cat ${USERS_FILE} | \
> > while read FIRSTNAME LASTNAME USERNAME PASSWORD
> > do
> > echo "adding the user: $USERNAME"
> > $QMAILADD -q $QUOTA -c "$FIRSTNAME $LASTNAME" $USERNAME$MAILDOMAIN
> > $PASSWORD
> > done
> > #
> >
> >
> >
>
> --
> -Eric 'shubes'
>
>
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