Re: useradd/adduser

From: Peter Pentchev (roam@orbitel.bg)
Date: 05/02/01 

Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 18:02:57 +0300
From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To: Lee Smallbone <lee@kechara.net>

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:59:50PM +0100, Lee Smallbone wrote:
> I see what you mean about the synopsis...!
>
> From what I can see it isn't possible to supply the password to pw?
> I'm using md5 passwords, and can easily have the script in question encode
> the password prior to calling pw, so is it possible to use (in the verse of
> pw), something along the lines of:
>
> pw useradd -n test -c "Test User" -d /home2/test -m -s sh $md5encpass
>
> ?

You can't supply an *encrypted* pass; but then, you can't do this with
adduser, either. You *can* supply a cleartext password to pw(8), just
as Sheldon said, using the -h option:

echo unf | pw useradd testuser -h 0

..just tell it to read the password from fd 0 (stdin).

G'luck,
Peter 

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