pass vars to application
 

hi,

I'm creating a shell script that asks the user for a username and a passwd.
these values are then stored in $USERNAME and $PASSWD

Then I want to run the following tool to create a pure-ftp user: pure-pw useradd <user> ..
pure-pw useradd then prompts two times for a password.

now what I want to do is to pass the $USERNAME and $PASSWD to pure-pw useradd so that it uses these values.

But how do you do this? :)

if there really is no other way to supply a password, then you can use expect to read the questions / prompts and reply accordingly.