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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > 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