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Old 07-29-2003
Creating user ids on multiple systems simultaneously
I am trying to think of a way to create user ids on multiple Linux systems in one fell swoop without logging onto each system indivually. Is there a way to do this with ssh commands? I don't want to use NIS/LDAP solution just a simple shell script utilitarian methodoloy would suffice. Also, I am trying to steer clear of using any r* commands as well. I found a posting in this forum suggesting using pconsole, but I have not found this to be a suitable or easy to use solution. Suggestions? - Thanks.
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Old 08-07-2003
You could try cfengine to update your passwd (and shadow) files {not positive of what it uses to copy the files over} - as long as nfs home directories are being used since I doubt you could create home directories with it.
 
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