creating newusers and givin passwds in Ubuntu

jone kim · 02-19-2011, 10:49 AM

I've created 10 new users for my machine. And I want to keep same login password for all of the users. Its very tedious job to enter the same password everytime while creating the new users. Is there any way to do this job?? Any quick way??

honeybadger · 02-19-2011, 12:03 PM

Umm.... never tried this but I think it should be possible by editing /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow.
Anyway this would involve approximately the same amount of time.
Another way is '#groupadd' where you can set up a password but the man page does not recommend this because passwords will show up in the 'ps'.
Hope this helps.

repo · 02-19-2011, 12:24 PM

Here is a script to add users.
You can easily modify it to use the same password.
http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-...-add-user.html

Kind regards

archtoad6 · 05-06-2011, 02:52 PM

There is a command newusers. From its man page:

Quote:

DESCRIPTION
The newusers command reads a file of user name and clear-text password pairs and uses this information to update a group of existing users or to create new users. Each line is in the same format as the standard password file (see passwd(5)) with the following exceptions:
. . .

If you already have it, or can install it, it may be better than a script.