On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Wyatt wrote:
> I want to add users through a shell script and have it set the
> password. I may be way off on this but it seems that useradd will not
> add a password for the user. You have to run passwd and get prompted
You can use "expect" to run (well, run & interact with) "passwd".
I use a perl script to read an entry file (of say, login\t password
columns), and write a file. The resulting file is a shell script that runs
expect for each user in turn.
Hossein
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