9 Jul
2009
9 Jul
'09
12:55 p.m.
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.
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Bill