On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 08:32 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Hi, > > I need to setup a load of user accounts on a series of machines, for > testing purposes. I'm using a script to do this, but the only problem I > have so far: I have to activate them all manually by doing passwd user1, > passwd user2, passwd user3, etcetera. The useradd man page mentions a -p > option to define a password, but I can't seem to get this to work.
A common oversight. IIRC, the -p expects tha *encrypted password, as might be found in /etc/shadow. The --stdin others suggest should do it. > <snip> -- Bill _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
