On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 09:38:17AM +0100, Mário Gamito wrote: > Hi, > > First things first, sorry for the off-topic, but I've already burned > my eyes Googling and couldn't find the answer to what I need and I > remembered asking here, because I'm a long time CentOS and its mailing > list user. > Again, my apologies. > > I have this command to create an FTP account: > > # pure-pw useradd mario -u 502 -g 502 -n 1000 -N 200 -d /home/pages/mario > > This command asks for the password twice. > > I need to pass the password (preferably without expect) so I can > create the account without prompting. > > If i run: > > # echo secret | pure-pw useradd mario -u 502 -g 502 -n 1000 -N 200 -d > /home/pages/gamito > > It reads the first insertion, but asks for the second. (echo secret; echo secret) | pure-pw ... Or: echo -e 'secret\nsecret' | pure-pw Or: pure-pw <<EOF secret secret EOF -- lfr 0/0 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080516/76c5bfe8/attachment-0005.sig>