[ILUG] man useradd learning of.

[Francis Daly]

On 07/02/2012, Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/02/12 13:39, Nick Geoghegan wrote:
>> On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 12:58 +0000, Frank Murphy wrote:

Hi there,

>>> I type in "man adduser" useradd comes up.
>>> Maybe it's a Fedora thing.

useradd --help

and

groupadd --help

look like they should give enough information to allow you to create the users.

(Looked at on a CentOS 5.6 image, I'm hoping that your Fedora is
similar enough.)

>> http://www.go2linux.org/pics/other_files/adduser.txt may be of
>> assistance, it has to me on OpenSuSE servers in the past.
>
> Appreciate that Nick,
>
> Do I need rename from txt to pl (perl)

The system doesn't care. From the command line, if the file is marked
executable and has a correct "#!" line, the filename extension is not
relevant. (It can be useful to the user to know what is what without
reading the files, but that's a separate thing.)

But "perl -wc adduser.txt" will probably fail with something very like

Can't locate Debian/AdduserCommon.pm in @INC

so that program probably isn't immediately usable for you, other than
as an inspiration for the commands you want. ("systemcall" in that
file is probably worth looking at.)

groupadd -g, and useradd -g and -u, look like they can be made to do
what you want.

Good luck with it,

  f