On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Chris Morton wrote:
> Is there a way to add a single user and password using parameters from the
> command line?
>
> I've set up a script for a user to add users, create directories, set
> permissions, etc. I have the user type in "usersetup <username> <password>".
> This adds the user, creates some subdirectories, changes ownerships and
> changes permissions.
>
> The one thing I was unable to do was to set the password without intervention
> when the user was added.
>
> I finally settled on this method in the script:
>
> echo $password > /usr/local/sbin/user
> passwd --stdin $user < /usr/local/sbin/user
> rm /usr/local/sbin/user
>
> Is there a better way of doing this? I don't like writing the password out to
> the hard drive, even if I delete it a second later. I was just unable to find
> another way to do it that didn't require input from the user after the initial
> invocation of the script.
>
> The idea is to make this as simple for the user as possible. I only need to
> add one user and set his password at a time. Perhaps there's a way to get the
> passwd command to recognize a memory variable as "stdin".
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
You could try using the chpasswd command instead of the passwp
command. You might also want to look into adduser for creating users.
Mikkel
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