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#!/bin/bash

OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS=","

while read firstname lastname userid
do
sudo useradd -c "${firstname}.${lastname}" -d /home/students/student/"${firstname}.${lastname}" -G students -s /bin/bash "${userid}"
done < hello.csv









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#!/bin/bash

OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS=","

while read firstname lastname userid
do
sudo useradd -c "${firstname}.${lastname}" -d /home/students/student/"${firstname}.${lastname}" -G students -s /bin/bash "${userid}"
done < hello.csv









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#!/bin/bash

OLDIFS=$IFS
IFS=","

while read firstname lastname userid
do
sudo useradd -c "${firstname}.${lastname}" -d /home/students/student/"${firstname}.${lastname}" -G students -s /bin/bash "${userid}"
done < hello.csv









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while read firstname lastname userid
do
sudo useradd -c "${firstname}.${lastname}" -d /home/students/student/"${firstname}.${lastname}" -G students -s /bin/bash "${userid}"
done < hello.csv






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    You might want to investigate the newusers command ("update and create new users in batch")
    – steeldriver
    yesterday










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You might want to investigate the newusers command ("update and create new users in batch")
– steeldriver
yesterday




You might want to investigate the newusers command ("update and create new users in batch")
– steeldriver
yesterday












Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! What’s your question? What are you trying to achieve? (Please edit your post when you want to clarify something or add information. It’s best to have everything relevant in one place. Additionally, comments may be deleted for various reasons.) Thanks.
– David Foerster
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From the manpage:






-m, --create-home
Create the user's home directory if it does not exist.
The files and directories contained in the skeleton directory
(which can be defined with the -k option) will be copied to
the home directory.

By default, if this option is not specified and CREATE_HOME
is not enabled, no home directories are created.



However, I would strongly suggest to not use a user's real name
for the $HOME directory as you did with -d /home/students/student/"${firstname}.${lastname}".
Think of (real) usernames like "John A. Doe".
His $HOME directory would contain a space and that is not exactly userfriendly.






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  • Or someone with a non-latin name. Would not work. Usernames has to match [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]? according to man useradd
    – vidarlo
    yesterday






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    @vidarlo Not quite. What you say is true for the username (the string you get from id or what you need to type when logging in, e.g. pduck). But the OP uses the real name for the $HOME path, e.g. /home/students/student/Perl.Duck. Here, anything that is a valid filename is allowed but when it contains weird characters you always have to write "$HOME" instead of just $HOME and I'm tempted to predict that users will keep asking the OP why cd /home/students/student/John A. Doe won't take them to their home directory but complain about cd: too many arguments instead.
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    yesterday










  • Good distinction. I didn't spot that :)
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From the manpage:






-m, --create-home
Create the user's home directory if it does not exist.
The files and directories contained in the skeleton directory
(which can be defined with the -k option) will be copied to
the home directory.

By default, if this option is not specified and CREATE_HOME
is not enabled, no home directories are created.



However, I would strongly suggest to not use a user's real name
for the $HOME directory as you did with -d /home/students/student/"${firstname}.${lastname}".
Think of (real) usernames like "John A. Doe".
His $HOME directory would contain a space and that is not exactly userfriendly.






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  • Or someone with a non-latin name. Would not work. Usernames has to match [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]? according to man useradd
    – vidarlo
    yesterday






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    @vidarlo Not quite. What you say is true for the username (the string you get from id or what you need to type when logging in, e.g. pduck). But the OP uses the real name for the $HOME path, e.g. /home/students/student/Perl.Duck. Here, anything that is a valid filename is allowed but when it contains weird characters you always have to write "$HOME" instead of just $HOME and I'm tempted to predict that users will keep asking the OP why cd /home/students/student/John A. Doe won't take them to their home directory but complain about cd: too many arguments instead.
    – PerlDuck
    yesterday










  • Good distinction. I didn't spot that :)
    – vidarlo
    yesterday
















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From the manpage:






-m, --create-home
Create the user's home directory if it does not exist.
The files and directories contained in the skeleton directory
(which can be defined with the -k option) will be copied to
the home directory.

By default, if this option is not specified and CREATE_HOME
is not enabled, no home directories are created.



However, I would strongly suggest to not use a user's real name
for the $HOME directory as you did with -d /home/students/student/"${firstname}.${lastname}".
Think of (real) usernames like "John A. Doe".
His $HOME directory would contain a space and that is not exactly userfriendly.






share|improve this answer























  • Or someone with a non-latin name. Would not work. Usernames has to match [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]? according to man useradd
    – vidarlo
    yesterday






  • 1




    @vidarlo Not quite. What you say is true for the username (the string you get from id or what you need to type when logging in, e.g. pduck). But the OP uses the real name for the $HOME path, e.g. /home/students/student/Perl.Duck. Here, anything that is a valid filename is allowed but when it contains weird characters you always have to write "$HOME" instead of just $HOME and I'm tempted to predict that users will keep asking the OP why cd /home/students/student/John A. Doe won't take them to their home directory but complain about cd: too many arguments instead.
    – PerlDuck
    yesterday










  • Good distinction. I didn't spot that :)
    – vidarlo
    yesterday














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From the manpage:






-m, --create-home
Create the user's home directory if it does not exist.
The files and directories contained in the skeleton directory
(which can be defined with the -k option) will be copied to
the home directory.

By default, if this option is not specified and CREATE_HOME
is not enabled, no home directories are created.



However, I would strongly suggest to not use a user's real name
for the $HOME directory as you did with -d /home/students/student/"${firstname}.${lastname}".
Think of (real) usernames like "John A. Doe".
His $HOME directory would contain a space and that is not exactly userfriendly.






share|improve this answer














From the manpage:






-m, --create-home
Create the user's home directory if it does not exist.
The files and directories contained in the skeleton directory
(which can be defined with the -k option) will be copied to
the home directory.

By default, if this option is not specified and CREATE_HOME
is not enabled, no home directories are created.



However, I would strongly suggest to not use a user's real name
for the $HOME directory as you did with -d /home/students/student/"${firstname}.${lastname}".
Think of (real) usernames like "John A. Doe".
His $HOME directory would contain a space and that is not exactly userfriendly.







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  • Or someone with a non-latin name. Would not work. Usernames has to match [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]? according to man useradd
    – vidarlo
    yesterday






  • 1




    @vidarlo Not quite. What you say is true for the username (the string you get from id or what you need to type when logging in, e.g. pduck). But the OP uses the real name for the $HOME path, e.g. /home/students/student/Perl.Duck. Here, anything that is a valid filename is allowed but when it contains weird characters you always have to write "$HOME" instead of just $HOME and I'm tempted to predict that users will keep asking the OP why cd /home/students/student/John A. Doe won't take them to their home directory but complain about cd: too many arguments instead.
    – PerlDuck
    yesterday










  • Good distinction. I didn't spot that :)
    – vidarlo
    yesterday


















  • Or someone with a non-latin name. Would not work. Usernames has to match [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]? according to man useradd
    – vidarlo
    yesterday






  • 1




    @vidarlo Not quite. What you say is true for the username (the string you get from id or what you need to type when logging in, e.g. pduck). But the OP uses the real name for the $HOME path, e.g. /home/students/student/Perl.Duck. Here, anything that is a valid filename is allowed but when it contains weird characters you always have to write "$HOME" instead of just $HOME and I'm tempted to predict that users will keep asking the OP why cd /home/students/student/John A. Doe won't take them to their home directory but complain about cd: too many arguments instead.
    – PerlDuck
    yesterday










  • Good distinction. I didn't spot that :)
    – vidarlo
    yesterday
















Or someone with a non-latin name. Would not work. Usernames has to match [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]? according to man useradd
– vidarlo
yesterday




Or someone with a non-latin name. Would not work. Usernames has to match [a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*[$]? according to man useradd
– vidarlo
yesterday




1




1




@vidarlo Not quite. What you say is true for the username (the string you get from id or what you need to type when logging in, e.g. pduck). But the OP uses the real name for the $HOME path, e.g. /home/students/student/Perl.Duck. Here, anything that is a valid filename is allowed but when it contains weird characters you always have to write "$HOME" instead of just $HOME and I'm tempted to predict that users will keep asking the OP why cd /home/students/student/John A. Doe won't take them to their home directory but complain about cd: too many arguments instead.
– PerlDuck
yesterday




@vidarlo Not quite. What you say is true for the username (the string you get from id or what you need to type when logging in, e.g. pduck). But the OP uses the real name for the $HOME path, e.g. /home/students/student/Perl.Duck. Here, anything that is a valid filename is allowed but when it contains weird characters you always have to write "$HOME" instead of just $HOME and I'm tempted to predict that users will keep asking the OP why cd /home/students/student/John A. Doe won't take them to their home directory but complain about cd: too many arguments instead.
– PerlDuck
yesterday












Good distinction. I didn't spot that :)
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