Bulk User Creation Tool

RT Users
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Has anyone come up with a nice bulk user creation tool for RT2? We
had RT1 installed here (briefly) and rtadmin had the getpwent
feature, but the version we had that didn’t work (which is what led
us to toss the Debian webrt package and get something current in the
first place). Checking rtadmin on rt2, though, doesn’t seem to show
a similar feature.

Has anyone written something that will parse, say, /etc/passwd and
/etc/shadow to bulk-create a bunch of RT accounts with a default set
of permissions?

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Has anyone written something that will parse, say, /etc/passwd and
/etc/shadow to bulk-create a bunch of RT accounts with a default set
of permissions?

( just noticed that this hasn’t had a reply )

I’m not aware of any such tool, but can see how it can be quickly created,
and even do such fancy things as keep your RT users in sync with your
passwd(5)/group(5) files or vice versa.

However, other solutions have been proposed on the mailing list previously
(using external authenticaion) which might suit your needs better.

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