Adding new users and assigning passwords

[Tony Hickinbottom]

The commands in 'pem' work ok if I type them at the command line. Why will they not work in a script?   Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) Kernel 2.4.2-2 on an i686   # ls -l pem -rwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           94 Jul  8 19:44 pem   # cat pem /usr/sbin/useradd -g popusers -s /bin/false merves02 echo d2ksd6b | passwd --stdin merves02   # ./pem 'seradd: invalid user name `merves02 'asswd: Unknown user name 'merves02   #