R: Adding users with a script

Andrea Cirulli acirulli at gmail.com
Tue Dec 29 13:42:40 EST 2009


> Hi,
> 
> it is very simple to automatize such a task:
> 
> 
> kadmin -r REALM -p kadmin/admin -w PASSWORD -q "add_principal -pw
> PASSWORD principal"*
> 
> 
> and then repeat such command for every user you have to insert in.
> 
> If you don't want to use the administration password you can use the keytab
> for administration with -k option.
> 
> Be aware that your password does not contain special characters ( ! & ..) in
> that case you have to insert the password between 'PASSWORD'.
> 
> Bye,
> Andrea
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> Date: 27 Dec 2009 01:08:00 GMT
> From: Jaap Winius <jwinius at umrk.nl>
> Subject: Adding users with a script
> To: kerberos at mit.edu
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> Hi all,
> 
> If you have 1,000 user names and passwords to add to an MIT Kerberos V
> database on a Linux system, you could add them all manually with kadmin,
> but that would be a terrible waste of time. The proper way would be to
> automate this process with a script, but I have no idea how.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jaap
> -- 
> Andrea Cirulli





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