[Ilugc] adding multiple user accounts with password

[Tom Jose Tharayil]

> Sridhar R wrote:
>
>> I want to add enourmous amount of users with specified passwords
>> automatically with script.  But the problem is `passwd` command
>> doesn't accept passwords from non-stdin stream and `adduser` command
>> requires encrypte version of password if at all passed is needed to be
>> given.
>
> $ useradd foo -p `openssl passwd -1 bar`
>
> Adding user 'foo' with password 'bar'

and for adding multiple users (or an enormously large amount of them)
for i in `seq 1 100`
do
useradd foo$i -p `openssl passwd -1 bar`
done

would add users foo1 foo2 and so on

HTH



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Tom Jose Tharayil
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