Re: Adding Users

Baishampayan Ghose <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Aug 2005 23:57:19 +0530

Newsgroups	gmane.org.region.india.fsug-kochi
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hello Biju,
>  how can i add a bulk of users using script??
>  for eg:-user1 to some user100(suppose both user name and passwd are 
> same)
I have hacked up a small Python script for you. I am attaching it with
this mail.

USAGE: python useradd.py <username_prefix> <number_of_accounts>

Others can view the file here - http://pastebin.com/330149
Hope that helps,
Feel free to ask in case of any issues.
Regards,
-bg-

-- 
Baishampayan Ghose
b.ghose at gmail.com

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useradd.py (text/x-python, 1.6 KB)

#!/usr/bin/python

# useradd.py -- A simple Python script to create a bunch of users at a time
# Copyright (c) 2005 Baishampayan Ghose <[email protected]>
# Licensed under GNU GPL v 2
# USAGE: useradd.py <username_prefix> <number_of_accounts>

import sys, crypt, os

__passwd__ = 'password' # The default password
__salt__ = '2a08d4d1e35cbb74c169e7e6a51fad44'

def validate():
    '''This function validates input and checks for root privileges'''
    if (len(sys.argv) < 3):
        sys.exit("USAGE: useradd.py prefix number")
    else:
        print "Prefix: ", sys.argv[1]
        print "Accounts: ", sys.argv[2]
        ch = raw_input('Continue (y/n)? ')
        if (ch.upper() != 'Y'):
            sys.exit('Bye')
        else:
            uid = os.getuid()
            if (uid != 0):
                sys.exit('ERROR: You need to be root for that')
            else:
                pass

def main():
    '''This is the main function and does the actual job'''
    validate()
    prefix = sys.argv[1]
    number = sys.argv[2]
    passwd = crypt.crypt(__passwd__, __salt__)

    for i in xrange(1, int(number) + 1):
        uname = prefix + str(i).zfill(2)
        homedir = '/home/' + uname # The home dir
        command = 'useradd -p ' + passwd + ' -d ' + homedir + ' ' + uname
        if (os.system(command) != 0):
            sys.exit('Oops! Some error ocurred')
        print "Created user: ", uname

# If the script is run directly call main() else quit
        
if (__name__ == '__main__'):
    main()
else:
    sys.exit('useradd.py: This script should not be used as a module!')