On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 07:35 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
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:
- useradd .... $1 .......
- password --stdin <<"EOF"
$2 EOF
so if you call
script <USERNAME> "<PASSWORD>"
the password should be set correctly.
The problem as I see it is to generate passwds automatically. There used to be a program mkpasswd that did that but I can't find that now. -- ======================================================================= "One size fits all": Doesn't fit anyone. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@sbcglobal.net