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I was trying to get a bash script to run so that I can have a bunch of users made and their passwords changed to a temporary one. Now I can get all the users made, the problem that I am running into is getting it to take a password. I can get it to take output from a file, but I don't want that. I want the script to be independent, I don't know how to get the script to enter the password twice after it runs the command. I hope that is somewhat understandable. If anyone has any ideas that would be great.
I need it to enter the password twice because the passwd command asks for the password then for the password to be confirmed. I just figured out that using the newline character with an echo works. Thanks though.
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