User creation script

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Thu Apr 26 20:05:33 UTC 2007


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:
> 
> 1. useradd   .... $1 .......
> 2. 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.
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