Re: [LUG] Adding new email users

[Simon Waters <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Kai Hendry wrote:
| On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 09:44:41 +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
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|>150 users - /etc/passwd and a false shell as Kai says unless they have
|>authentication details on another system!? If you want to script
|>useradd, google as there are Perl snippets around to generate the
|>encrypted passwords for you (with a suitably random salt etc) which is
|>usually where it falls down.
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| What about adduser --shell /bin/false ?

That sets the password how Kai?

useradd takes the encrypted password these days - easy enough to
generate, there is a perl script which does it using suitably random
salts. Encrypted Unix password are dead easy, but you have to know what
to expect, especially now when they may well be MD5 or old style, which
is all a bewildering confusion for those getting started.
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