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Khetan GajjarDec 1, 1997 3:16 am 
Subject:Re: Adding 700+ users with one or two commands
From:Khetan Gajjar (khe@chain.iafrica.com)
Date:Dec 1, 1997 3:16:40 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-isp

On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Jan L. Peterson wrote:

while read line do eval set $line adduser -batch $1 $2 "" "$4" $5 -shell nologin done < yourfile

Great. It worked :)

I ended up using while read line; do eval set $line; adduser -batch $1 "" "" $3 "$4" $5 -shell nologin; done < input_file

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