Need Help with Linux Scripting

[KeyserSoze]

Can anyone give me any sites that would help me with this? Specifically, being able to add users to Linux, and setting their passwords, being read from a file. Our book proves to be pretty worthless, and I can't find any good sources.


Thanx in Advance to you Linux Boobs






KeyserSoze

 

[Rakkis]

Here are a few links I used before. A couple might be outdated.


http://www.cc.vt.edu/cc/us/docs/unix/shells.html

Info on sh scripting:
http://www.whereisit.com/shellscript/index2.html
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~bakal/shell/shell1.html
http://steve-parker.org/sh/sh.shtml

 

[notfred]

What language did you want to write the script in?

assuming you have a file like:

name, passwd
name, passwd
name, passwd
etc....


you could do somthing like this in perl:

open (FILE, "passwdfile");
@lines = <FILE>;
foreach $line(@lines){
@temp = split /,/, $line
system("adduser $temp[0]");
system("passwd $temp[0] $temp[1]");
}


I doubt that would actually work, but you could do something similar.