Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 18:38 -0600, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> Anyone have pointers (or examples) of a script that can be used to
> create new users and set their password at the same time? I need
> something I can call like so:
>
> script USERNAME PASSWORD
>
> ...and have it return 1 or 0 for failure or success.
You can't use "useradd" as it already stands?
I think the problem is the password.
Splitting the script in to parts:
1. useradd .... $1 .......
2. password --stdin <<"EOF"
$2
EOF
so if you call
script <USERNAME> "<PASSWORD>"
the password should be set correctly.
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