Re: useradd/adduser

From: Sheldon Hearn (sheldonh@uunet.co.za)
Date: 05/02/01 

To: lee@kechara.net
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 16:13:19 +0200
From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>

On Wed, 02 May 2001 15:12:01 +0100, Lee Smallbone wrote:

> Is there any way to use adduser in a non-interative state (run from
> scripts)?

Yes, with the pw(8) command. If your scripts gain knowledge of the
passwords for accounts somewhere, you can feed the passwords to pw(8)
using its -h option.

Don't be daunted by the manual page. It's pretty easy going once you've
gotten past the synopsis. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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