Hello everyone!

I'm working on a script that uses mkuser to add user ID's in batch on
an AIX 5.1 system, and I need to have all of the user accounts' UID's
start at 200 (don't ask me, ask management).

I know you can specify the UID in the mkuser command, but I would
rather let AIX assign them so if ID's get deleted, the UID can be
reused. Is there a way to do this in a script? Would it involve
modifying the /etc/security/.ids file somehow?

Thanks in advance!

In article <ea473f2f.0402180817.77e8e915@posting.google.com >, Test wrote:
> Hello everyone!
>
> I'm working on a script that uses mkuser to add user ID's in batch on
> an AIX 5.1 system, and I need to have all of the user accounts' UID's
> start at 200 (don't ask me, ask management).
>
> I know you can specify the UID in the mkuser command, but I would
> rather let AIX assign them so if ID's get deleted, the UID can be
> reused. Is there a way to do this in a script? Would it involve
> modifying the /etc/security/.ids file somehow?
>
> Thanks in advance!

What about creating a dummy account at 199, running your script,
then removing the dummy account?

Mike

The UIDs less than 500 are privilleged users. It is not good idea to
assign large amount of users' ID < 500.

The command phrase will create a account with specified ID.
mkuser id=$id $name

Create a plain text file that a username per line. Then ...

read $name
id=`expr $id + 1` # Be ware of spaces.
mkuser id=$id $name

I don't know how the AIX does, but Linux would not use the IDs < 500
by default.

Good Luck

Camp

cademair@yahoo.com (Test) wrote in message news:<ea473f2f.0402180817.77e8e915@posting.google. com>...
> Hello everyone!
>
> I'm working on a script that uses mkuser to add user ID's in batch on
> an AIX 5.1 system, and I need to have all of the user accounts' UID's
> start at 200 (don't ask me, ask management).
>
> I know you can specify the UID in the mkuser command, but I would
> rather let AIX assign them so if ID's get deleted, the UID can be
> reused. Is there a way to do this in a script? Would it involve
> modifying the /etc/security/.ids file somehow?
>
> Thanks in advance!