USERQUICK(8) User Contributed Perl Documentation USERQUICK(8)NAMEuserquick - A perl script to automatically create single user accounts
SYNOPSISuserquick [ -dhrsy ] [ -u user information of single user ] [ -g pri‐
mary group ] [ -b [base directory for $HOME] ] [ -S [smb‐
passwd binary] ] [ -o [Output file] ] [ -m [minimum password length] ]
[ -x [maximum password length] ] [ -D [descriptors] ] [ -G [mem‐
ber groups] ]
DESCRIPTIONuserquick creates a single user account based on information given on
the command line. The possible command line options are:
-d Enable the "dupe engine" which tries to "bruteforce" a username
that doesn't exist yet by appending one or two random characters
to already existing usernames it encounters. This is disabled by
default.
-h Display usage information.
-r Create strong passwords which means completely random strings of
misc case letters, special characters and numbers with a length of
10 characters (if no different length is specified using the -m
and -x switches). By default this is disabled and the script cre‐
ates passwords that are only composed of random lowercase letters
with a length of 8 characters.
-s Create Samba accounts in addition to traditional unix accounts. By
default this is disabled.
-y Append the "school year" to the GECOS field which is the period
between some day in September and some day in July and is there‐
fore composed of two calender years. I only included this because
I originally wrote this script for creating user accounts on my
school's network. If you need this option you probably know what
I'm talking about, if not you can safely ignore this as it is dis‐
abled by default anyway.
-g [primary group]
Specify the primary group for the users to be created, defaults to
'users'.
-G [member group1;member group2;...]
Specify a semicolon separated list of member groups for the users
to be created.
-B [directory]
Specify the directory where the home directories of the created
users will be placed. Defaults to "/home/$group" where $group is
the primary group of the users.
-S [location of smbpasswd(8)]
Specify the location of smbpasswd(8). Defaults to
"/usr/local/bin/smbpasswd". This implies -s.
-m [minimum password length]
Specify the minimum password length. This overrides the default
value of 8 characters (no -r option given) or 10 characters (-r
option given).
-x [maximum passsword length]
Specify the maximum password length. This overrides the default
value of 8 characters (no -r option given) or 10 characters (-r
option given).
-D [descriptor1;descriptor2;...]
Specify a semicolon separated list of descriptors for the fields
in the argument to the -u option. The length of this list has to
match the actual fields being present.
SEE ALSOuserneu(8)AUTHOR
Johannes Grassler <johannes.grassler@freenet.de>
1.36 2003-07-26 USERQUICK(8)
