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2 !!!NEWUSERS
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 CAVEATS
7 SEE ALSO
8 AUTHOR
9 ----
10 !!NAME
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13 __newusers__ - update and create new users in batch
14 !!SYNOPSIS
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17 __newusers__ [[ ''new_users'' ]
18 !!DESCRIPTION
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21 __newusers__ reads a file of user name and cleartext
22 password pairs and uses this information to update a group
23 of existing users or to create new users. Each line is in
24 the same format as the standard password file (see
25 passwd(5)) with the following
26 exceptions.
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29 ''pw_passwd''
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32 This field will be encrypted and used as the new value of
33 the encrpted password.
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36 ''pw_age''
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39 This field will be ignored for shadow passwords if the user
40 already exists.
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43 ''pw_gid''
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46 This field may be the name of an existing group, in which
47 case the named user will be added as a member. If a
48 non-existent numerical group is given, a new group will be
49 created having this number.
50
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52 ''pw_dir''
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55 This field will be checked for existence as a directory and
56 a new directory with the same name will be created if it
57 does not already exist. The ownership of the directory will
58 be set to be that of the user being created or
59 updated.
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62 This command is intended to be used in a large system
63 environment where many accounts are updated at a single
64 time.
65 !!CAVEATS
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68 The input file must be protected since it contains
69 unencrypted passwords.
70 !!SEE ALSO
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73 passwd(1), useradd(8)
74 !!AUTHOR
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77 Julianne Frances Haugh (jfh@austin.ibm.com)
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