How can I do a bulk adduser for about 45 users where the password would be userID+66254? Are there any known scripts for this?

try here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...adduser+script

this i got from google.com/linux:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my %values; # will hold the values to fill in

# these are the known adduser switches
my %switches = ( home_dir => '-d', comment => '-c', group => '-G',
password => '-p', shell => '-s', uid => '-u');

# this location may vary on your system
my $command = '/usr/sbin/adduser ';

# for every switch, ask the user for a value
foreach my $setting (sort keys %switches, 'username')
{
print "Enter the $setting or press Enter to skip: ";
$values{$setting} = ;
chomp $values{$setting};
# if the user did not enter data, kill this setting
delete $values{$setting} unless length $values{$setting};
}

die "Username must be provided" unless exists $values{username};

# for every filled-in value, add it with the right switch to the command
foreach my $setting (sort keys %switches)
{
next unless exists $values{$setting};
$command .= "$switches{$setting} $values{$setting} ";
}

# append the username itself
$command .= $values{username};

# important - let the user know what's going to happen
print "About to execute [$command]";

# return the exit status of the command
exit system($command);

I've looked at the link that you gave and have modified some of the following code which give me partially what I'm after:

I've modified the following code as such:

userprefix=test
totalusers=1
clear_passwd='test'
crypt_passwd=`openssl passwd -crypt $clear_passwd`
bashshell=
for((i=1;$i<=${totalusers};i +=1))
do
mkdir /home/${userprefix}${i}
useradd ${userprefix}${i} -d /home/${userprefix}${i} -g users -s /bin/bash -p $crypt_passwd
done

What do I need to add for it to give the same as the 'traditional' interactive adduser command? Which is usually the following:

bash-3.00# adduser test2
Login name for new user: test2
User ID ('UID') [ defaults to next available ]:
Initial group [ users ]:
Additional groups (comma separated) []:
Home directory [ /home/test2 ]
Shell [ /bin/bash ]
Expiry date (YYYY-MM-DD) []:

New account will be created as follows:

---------------------------------------
Login name.......: test2
UID..............: [ Next available ]
Initial group....: users
Additional groups: [ None ]
Home directory...: /home/test2
Shell............: /bin/bash
Expiry date......: [ Never ]

This is it... if you want to bail out, hit Control-C. Otherwise, press
ENTER to go ahead and make the account.
Creating new account...

Changing the user information for test2
Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
Full Name []:
Room Number []:
Work Phone []:
Home Phone []:
Other []:
Changing password for test2
Enter the new password (minimum of 5, maximum of 127 characters)
Please use a combination of upper and lower case letters and numbers.
New password:
Re-enter new password:
Password changed.
Account setup complete.