How to mass create users

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
On Mi, 2008-01-23 at 10:33 -0800, Joseph Hartman wrote:
> I've been reading a lot of recommendations for giving each student
> their own account on the terminal server but I am loathe to go through
> the user creation process dozens of times for each class. Is there a
> mass user creation method I don't know about? Upload a .csv or
> something? Thanks -joe 
in any case make sure whatever script you use uses adduser, not
useradd ... useradd is a low level tool and shouldnt be used directly,
adduser adds the right default groups and user settings you need in an
ubuntu system ...

ciao
	oli


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