BASH

dkrysak · 11-18-2005, 01:54 PM

Hi there... say I have the following bash script:

Code:

read -p "Enter a username and press [enter]: " UNAME
echo
read -s -p "Enter a password and press [enter]: " PWORD
echo

useradd -s /sbin/nologin $UNAME
passwd $UNAME

What I want to do is pass the $PWORD the the passwd command when it asks for a password.

Is this possible?

acid_kewpie · 11-18-2005, 03:16 PM

OK, someone asked this quite recently, and the general outcome was that you are liekly to have the chpasswd program which can do this, or to use expect to automate the manual inreaction passwd requires.