README

Createusers adds and removes Linux user accounts in bulk. Each new user may be given one or all of the following:

Login account and home directory
Personal web space on a local Apache web server
Personal MySQL database on a local or remote MySQL server
Personal PostgreSQL database on a local or remote PostgreSQL server
Samba file sharing account on a local Samba server
Disk quota via the Linux quota system.

Users may be deleted in bulk. The login, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Samba password of any user can be updated with a single command.

Follow the instructions in the INSTALL file to install and set up createusers. When installed and configured, the following commands will be available to the root user:

Action                       Command             Command for man page
------                       -------             --------------------
Create users in bulk         createusers         man createusers
Remove users in bulk         removeusers         man removeusers
Change a user's password     updateuserpasswd    man updateuserpasswd
Generate input passwords     passgen             man passgen

Tested platforms

Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.2, 7.0, 7.2
Suse Linux 6.2
Turbo Linux 6.0

Createusers is known to work with Bash 1.14.7, MySQL 3.23.32, PostgreSQL 7.0.3, Samba 2.0.5a and Apache 1.3.12.

Reporting bugs

Please send bug reports to Phil at the Linux for Schools Project. Email: philjones1@blueyonder.co.uk

Thanks

Special thanks to Nigel Pauli at St John's School, UK. http://www.st-johns.org.uk/