Adding Users

[chomps303]

I create new users in SCO 5.07 by creating a tmp passwd file and run addxusers. I use this becouse I have many users at a time to add and it works great. Is there any way to have a list of user names and do a for next loop and test logins? Something like this, except this dosen't work.

for name in `cat list`
do
echo $name
login $name
done

Thanks in advance

Brandt

 

[theotyflos]

Hi chomps,

From man login: &quot;It (login) cannot be invoked except when a connection is first established, or after the previous user has logged out by sending an end-of-file (<Ctrl>d) to their initial shell.
:
:
&quot;login cannot be executed from a shell.&quot;
:

Why would you want to do that?

Theophilos.

 

[tikual]

In Sun or HP platform, use 'passwd -s' to show the login status. Don't know that SCO unix has this option or not. You may try to 'man passwd' for more details.

tikual

 

[PHV]

To test the login and password, you can try something like this:

for name in `cat list`
do
     echo $name
     telnet localhost
done

Hope This Help
PH.