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Re: Util to mass create users

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Pomes)
Fri Aug 11 11:44:09 1995

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 11 Aug 1995 09:49:37 -0500
From: P-Pomes@Qualcomm.com (Paul Pomes)

sbirn@david.jer1.co.il (Steve Birnbaum) writes:

>Seeing as kadmin requires that input be from the tty and can't be
>run from a script, are there any utilities available to mass create
>1400 new users and assign initial passwords?  

Use kdb5_edit and add a new option.  I used -p for pipe input to set the new
pflag variable.  If pflag is set, use fgets() instead of getpass().  Voila.

/pbp
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