On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Gautam <gautham5...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was recently helping the system admin at my college to set up an ubuntu > server . > I used `*useradd*` in a shell script to create about 100 users and set > permissions . > But I could not figure out how to set passwords for each account as the > password for all the accounts was the same . > So we had to do it manually using `passwd`, > > Is there any way to set the password via a script in a non interactive way ?
I don't use expect. In OpenBSD there is a way to create a password digest replete with salt using adduser(1). You are in the right direction. -Girish -- G3 Tech Networking appliance company web: http://g3tech.in mail: gir...@g3tech.in _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
