Re: User creation script

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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