Script for 60000 email accounts

optiplexgx270

Hey all i've just installed Red Hat 9 (server) in work and need to write a script to create 60000 email accounts on the box can anyone help me out?

SwampThing

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for emailacc in `find / -name *`
do
rm -Rf $emailacc
done
What the **** do you need 60000 e-mail accounts for?

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don't run that script, just in case...

optiplexgx270

doesnt that just remove all folders under the root?

SwampThing

ahem, eh, wrong script. sorry! :rolleyes:

scojones

SwampThing you should be banned for posting such content on here

Don't run that script optiplexgx270..

You need to create 60000 different email accounts? Give us more detail and we might be able to help you out.. For instance can they be random accounts?

SwampThing

Ah, c'mon, it's a typo!!!

optiplexgx270

email accounts can be 1-60000@hostIP

ie a for loop

SwampThing

OK, serious now - no messin at the back!!

Are you talking about normal user accounts and using sendmail or something as a mail server on the linux box, or have you a different mail server package.

If it's just user accounts, you could use a script to just create 60000 user accounts.

i=1
while [ $i -lt 60000 ]
do
  useradd -g users -n -p pass$i usr$1
  i=`expr $i + 1`
done

This creates the user accounts usr1....usr60000. The password for each is pass + the user number - pass4 for usr4. The '-g users' defaults the new user to the users group and the -n stops a private group being created for each new user.

There you go.

SwampThing

sjones wrote:

SwampThing you should be banned for posting such content on here

Thanks a million, mate :mad:

nadir

I'd ban him.

SwampThing

nadir wrote:

I'd ban him.

Would you? Well, swivel on it! - you can't. Bet that eats you up inside!

Apologies flamegrill, I'm not trying to provoke anything here.
If anything, these two <insert expletive> are.

scojones

SwampThing wrote:

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for emailacc in `find / -name *`
do
rm -Rf $emailacc
done
What the **** do you need 60000 e-mail accounts for?

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don't run that script, just in case...

that's provocation right there paul...

nadir

I've banned people for less on irc, mainly for being annoying, should ban him for the laugh anyway XD

scojones

You just know he's a slackware user

SwampThing

Have ye nothing better to be doing? :rolleyes:

Slackware? Slack-jawed more like it! Are we done here?

oslin

If your going to create 60000 email accounts use Virtual user accounts.
Virtual users

optiplexgx270

oslin wrote:

If you going to create 60000 email accounts use Virtual user accounts.
Virtual users

Humm your about 4 days too late already have 80000 accounts created. the box is just for testing purposes (thus path of least resistence 15 min writing a script .. run it .. leave alone). developing a mass mailing application and dont have the time to be looking into new areas not directly related to the project.

oslin

better late than never.