Hi all;

Lets say I'd like to add a new user that shoul have the following feauters:

1.User will belong to one of: mktg, ent, trade, or mgmt groups, based on the Department field

2.Their usernames will be first_last based on the FirstName and LastName fields.
3.User will be created with Bash Shell defaults, under /home with the default /etc/skel template files included in his new home directories.

useradd -d -g $grgpname -m -k /etc/skel -s ???

does my command look ok or not.Also at the end of my command I am suppose to add the new user name right.But what if the name has to be lilke step 2.

How can I do this

Any answer would be great

Belinda

Have you tried to use my suggestions from your previous thead script for adding a new user ?
What is the result of your work ?

I'm so sorry.I tried to apply your solution,but I didn't get your answer.So what I did is

echo "choose one of the groups to add the user inmktg,ent,trade,mgmt)" grpname

read null
cut -f1 -d":" /etc/group
read grpname

echo "Type a username to add: " usrname
read usrname
clear
useradd -d -g $grpname -m -k /etc/skel -s $usrname * I DON'T THINK THIS LINE IS CORRECT

echo "user" $usrname "has been added to " $grpname "group on your machine"

##Display the records for the new users ONLY from /etc/passwd I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THIS PART

so that was my work.Thanks for the answer aigles

Belinda