This is my second day of attempting to write scripts, so I need some help.

I want to make a script to add a user to a server, set the password and then put them on some other services.

I want them to enter the command with the two necessary options being their username and their password ( I know that it's not that safe, but that is not of my concern now.)

addmyuser [name] [password]

It will do a "useradd" then try a "passwd"-- but how am I supposed to write a script that must enter something when prompted after the initial command?

Thanks

The 'useradd' command can be used with the '-p' option to provide a password; such as:

useradd -p mypassword myusername

That way it won't prompt for it.

Very cool--thanks a lot.

I'm having the same problem with smbpasswd--except it doesn't have anything that's equivalent to the "-p."



On a side note--using the combination "useradd and passwd" just stopped working for me and "useradd -p" isn't working either--just the graphical way. Any thoughts?

Also, is there a limit as to how many user accounts can be on a RH9.0 machine?


Thanks