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Is it possible to add a new user and give the new user a password in one
single command?

I know that I can do:

"adduser newuser"

and then

"passwd newuser"

to change the password manually (when logged in as root).
However, the "passwd"-command asks you to type the password, and I would
like to be able to specify the password on the commandline; something
like this:

"passwd newuser newpasswd",

this would the set "newuser" password to "newpassword". How can this be
done?

Geir.

You can make two simple scripts that do the job for you:

#!/bin/sh
# myadduser script
# usage : myadduser name password
useradd $1
expass $1 $2

This is the "expass" script called by the first script:

#!/usr/bin/expect -f
set password [lindex $argv 1]
spawn /bin/passwd [lindex $argv 0]
expect "assword:"
send "$password:\r"
expect "assword:"
send "$password:\r"
expect eof

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On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Geir quoth:

~~ Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 21:55:53 +0200

~~ Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
~~ Subject: newbie: adding users/ changing passwords...

[ snip ]

~~ However, the "passwd"-command asks you to type the password, and I would
~~ like to be able to specify the password on the commandline; something
~~ like this:
~~
~~ "passwd newuser newpasswd",
~~
~~ this would the set "newuser" password to "newpassword". How can this be
~~ done?

[ snip ]

Yes, and someone has already replied with one way to do it...
However, I would like to point something out from a security
standpoint.

anm       2152  2138  0 21:33 pts/0    00:00:00 grep PLAIN

if your are concerned.  If plain text passwords showing up in
the process table does not matter to you, so be it.

Regards,

anm
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