[CentOS] Add instantly active local user accounts *with* password using useradd -p option ?

[Sander Snel]

# for user in user1 user2 user3 ;  do useradd $user ;  echo "password" | 
passwd --stdin $user ; done

cant make it any simpler

Sander

Lucian at lastdot.org wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Niki Kovacs<contact at kikinovak.net> 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.
>> Here's what I'd like to be able to do:
>>
>> # useradd -c "Gaston Lagaffe" -p abc123 -m glagaffe
>>
>> And put that line in a script, so the account is *instantly* activated.
>> I tried it, but to no avail. Looks like there's some burning loop I have
>> to jump through first :o)
>>
>> No security considerations here for the moment, since it's for testing.
>>
>> Any idea how this works?
>>
>> Niki
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>
> You can't set passwd like that. Rather try making a script which you
> can feed the user pass and other info. You can set password from shell
> like this:
>
> echo 123abc|passwd --stdin username
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