On 5/26/06, seekuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You can do a script to do this. I tried this once with PHP, and had the following line in a loop:
useradd -d /home/mailusers/".$acct." -p '\$1\$pdHURzzz\$XJEFln7EZ.8WqXHo7quiG.' -s /bin/false ".$acct;
The characters following the -p switch is the account's crypt() encrypted password, which you can get from /etc/shadow. Don't forget to escape $ characters in the encrypted password.
HTH.
I wanna ask if there is a better way in adding a user to linux box with its password and username from a text file?
You can do a script to do this. I tried this once with PHP, and had the following line in a loop:
useradd -d /home/mailusers/".$acct." -p '\$1\$pdHURzzz\$XJEFln7EZ.8WqXHo7quiG.' -s /bin/false ".$acct;
The characters following the -p switch is the account's crypt() encrypted password, which you can get from /etc/shadow. Don't forget to escape $ characters in the encrypted password.
HTH.
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