help writing a script

[Deven Phillips]

Here you go!!!


#!/bin/bash
while [ : ] ; do
        echo -n "Enter the First Name (or Press <CTRL>+<C> to quit): " ;
        read forename ;
        echo -n "Enter the Last Name: " ;
        read surname ;
        echo -n "Enter the user's login ID: " ;
        read newuserid ;
        echo -n "Enter a password: " ;
        read newpassword ;
        useradd -p "$newpassword" "$newuserid" ;
        chfn -f "$forename $surname" "$newuserid" ;
done

Must be run as root.  :)

Deven Phillips, CISSP


On Monday 07 January 2002 10:19 pm, you wrote:
> Hi all, I need your guy's help writing a script to add a list of users and
> creating home directories for them, I'm not much of a shell scripting guru
> so I'll appreciate any help or pointers given..
> I need this script to create login names & home directories, but I want to
> include full name and I need it to prompt for a password using the useradd
> command.
> Can anyone help me here??
> or at least tell me where I can get some reference?
>
> TIA
>
> Julio
>
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