Tim Wilson wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I need to create about 2,000 user accounts, one for each student at our high > school. Their username will be their student id and I'll need to create a > random password too. (But I also need to be able to print out a little slip > of paper for each student that gives them their password.) > > Obviously I plan to script this, but I wonder if there are any words of > wisdom out there from more experienced admins than I. Are there some good > tools/scripts available? I will roll my own otherwise. you could use APG (a password generator) to get good random passwords http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/ a for loop and useradd(8) and passwd(1) should do it -- scot _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list