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Old 03-24-2010
Mass add users
Anyone has a script or something that can do this? I have a list of about 500 users and I need to add them to an AIX box. The profiles should have "Full Name" and "User Name".
# 2  
Old 03-24-2010
In AIX you can use the "mkuser" command. If you have a simple list of users in a text file, one username per line, this is as trivial as a for loop.

Something like:

for user in `cat userlist.txt`; do
mkuser $user blah blah blah
done
# 3  
Old 03-24-2010
I tried using something like below, but I need to also include the "User Info" as well as the username in the user properties.

EDIT: The below code worked. The key here is to have a text file that has no spaces and ";" for separators.

Code:
#!/bin/ksh
x() {
   LIST=
   SET_A=
   for i in "$@"
   do
           if [ "$i" = "admin=true" ]
           then
                   SET_A="-a"
                   continue
           fi
           LIST="$LIST \"$i\""
   done
   eval mkuser $SET_A $LIST
   }
filename=/path/to/text/file
  cat ${filename} | \
   while read FULLNAME USERID
   do
 x pgrp='pgrp' groups='group1,group2' home='/home' shell='/usr/bin/bash' gecos='$FULLNAME' $USERID
done



---------- Post updated at 10:47 PM ---------- Previous update was at 05:56 PM ----------

BTW - this was for AIX.
Last edited by bbbngowc; 03-24-2010 at 11:46 PM..
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