On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 10:53:18 -0600
Tim Wilson <wilson at visi.com> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
> 
> I need to create about 2,000 user accounts, one for each student at our high
> school. Their username will be their student id and I'll need to create a
> random password too. (But I also need to be able to print out a little slip
> of paper for each student that gives them their password.)
> 
> Obviously I plan to script this, but I wonder if there are any words of
> wisdom out there from more experienced admins than I. Are there some good
> tools/scripts available? I will roll my own otherwise.

man newusers

I like this site for random password generation:

http://www.winguides.com/security/password.php

Josh

_______________________________________________
TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org
https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list