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by **griff..** » Fri, 23 Jun 2000 04:00:00

Does anyone know if there is a way to automate the addition of user onto
a Solaris 8 machine? I would like to use perl and useradd, but that
won't work for the password, which needs to be run interactivly with the
passwd command. Anyone gone through this and can provide some pointers?

Griffin Caprio

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by **Andrei Ivan** » Fri, 23 Jun 2000 04:00:00

> Does anyone know if there is a way to automate the addition of user onto
> a Solaris 8 machine? I would like to use perl and useradd, but that
> won't work for the password, which needs to be run interactivly with the
> passwd command. Anyone gone through this and can provide some pointers?

You can use Expect (Tcl-based scripting language), but under Solaris [78]
/usr/lib/makekey may be useful as well. Once I wrote about addition of
encrypted passwords to /etc/shadow from shell script:

% In bourne shell you can use smth like the following to generate new 'shadow' file:
%
% e_pass=`printf "%-8s${salt}\n" "$password" | tr ' ' '\000' | /usr/lib/makekey`
% echo "${username}:${e_pass}:${day}::::::" >> shadow.new
%
% where variables named 'username', 'password', 'salt', and 'day' contain
% username, clear text password, 2-character salt, and day of unix epoch
% respectively (there are no man page for the 'makekey' program :-().

Just checked: this works under Solaris 8, but there are no man pages for
makekey (still :-().

--
andrei

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