Re: exploring debian's users and groups

[Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a]

On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 04:31:52PM -0500, Aaron Hall wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> > bin:
> >
> > HELP: No files on my system are owned by user or group bin. What
> >   good are they? Historically they were probably the owners of
> >   binaries in /bin? It is not mentioned in the FHS, debian
> >   policy, or the changelogs of base-passwd or base-files.
> 
> I can confirm that on Solaris 2.5, bin is the owner and group of most
> files in /bin, /usr/bin, et al. I don't go back all that far in unix, so
> I don't know why that is.

I can confirm the same for AIX 4.3.3

Regards

Javi

Re: Adding users from a list or database?

[Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a]

I made a set of perl scripts addapted to the organization I was
sysadmin off, quite simple since they only read a text file and then:
1.- tried to find if user existed (give me quite a headache, since other
sysadmins had used different abbreviations for full names, middle names...)
2.- if it didn't exist use a generated-on-the-fly login (I used a program
made by Juan Cespedes, another Debian developer which might be useful for
your purposes)
3.- add the user with a modified adduser (took the source and modified it to
allow non-interactively give a passwd  by STDIN)..might have it around
somewhere.
4.- do all tasks needed in my site: send e-mail,  add to printer quotas, set
config files...

All my work is, of course, GPL'ed, if anyone finds it might be
userful I can e-mail it to him (or make it available for download)

I have also looked for apps that might be useful for this, and have
some available, like a 'dialog' based app (in spanish) for maintaing a
student's lab of Linux boxes (they use NIS), but have not yet found flexible
enough for the purposes of such a tool

Regards

Javi

On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 08:28:47PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Steve Phillips wrote:
> > What do you do if you have to add many users on a regular basis?
> > 
> > I would like to be able to add users from a list, to avoid the
> > interactive nature of adduser.  Is there a tool that does something like
> > this?  A couple of years ago I modified adduser to read entries from a
> > simple database (one line per entry, fields deliminated by colons) and
> > automagically create user accounts for them.  Thats based on a really
> > old version of adduser though.
> 
> If I remember correctly then adduser is based on useradd which is
> not interactive.  However I don't think that it's able to set a
> password.
> 
> Regards,
> 
>   Joey
> 
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