El 16/05/2008, a las 10:38, Mário Gamito escribió: > 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. Dear Mario, I have the same problem some days ago, try with this: ( echo ${PASSWORD} ; echo ${PASSWORD} ) | pure-pw useradd ${USUARIO} - u ftpuser -g ftpgroup -d /backup/${USUARIO} -N ${QUOTA} -m > /dev/ null 2>&1 From the FAQ at: http://pureftpd.sourceforge.net/FAQ "* Passwords and pure-pw scripting." ==================================================================== -> I would like to create virtual users with a shell-script. if i us pure-pw useradd ..... it always asks for the new password. is there any command-line option which tells pure-pw the password (like useradd ftp-user ftp-password -m) ? (at1ce) . Giving cleartext (and badly one-way hashed) passwords through command- line switches is a bad idea. Because users could issue a simple 'ps' command and discover these passwords. One way to enter a password (not from the keyboard) is to put the password twice in a temporary file, then redirect that file to stdin. Example: pure-pw useradd john -d /tmp/john -u ftpuser -m < ~/tmp/passfile And in ~/tmp/passfile, have something like: john's password john's password If you really need to avoid a temporary file and if nobody but you can log on the machine, you can always do this: (echo blahblah; echo blahblah) | pure-pw useradd john -d /tmp/john -u ftpuser ==================================================================== Regards, -- Santi Saez Hostalia Internet S.L.U. http://www.hostalia.com