set passwords in a script in solaris 9 and return
 

I have a script that adds a user to the solaris 9 system

I also have a random password generator so I can pass the password to the command but someone needs to hit return twice to set it, I want the script to set it for me so I don't have to hit return. As it is now after I add the user I set the password manually I don't want to do that I want the script to do that for me, How do I make this work

What do you want the script to do?

Many cli programs that require a password have the option of passing the password as a parameter. For example useradd takes the -p flag followed by a string to add the password. If this is used you will not need to press return twice when the user account is set up.

HTH

I haven't done it on Solaris 9 but generally whenever you have an interactive program that waits for response to prompts the best thing to use is "expect".

I found this thread about expect for Solaris 9.
http://compgroups.net/comp.unix.sola...all-sol/333544

send variable to expect
 

I have a user add script to add a user to Solaris 9 it does everything except set the password, I have a password generator in my script I want to set the generator to a variable and pass the variable to expect so I can set the password when adding the user.

Within expect you can use command line arguments passed in so for example using first argument from command line (e.g. same thing as $1 in a shell script):

set newpw [lrange $argv 0 0]
whaterver...
send $newpw

You could create the hash yourself and then append a line (all 7 fields) to /etc/passwd . After all accounts are added run pwconv . If doing this I'd set the "must change at next login" option in the hash to force a change to the new and better hashes available in Solaris 9.

from password generator to expect for Solaris
 

what I want to do is this I have a password generator as seen below which is in my script. this works for linux because linux has the "-p" option to pass the password too during the run of the useradd command, but Solaris doesn't as seen below for linux which is actually 2 stages

Code:

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password=`</dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 | head -c8`

pass=$(perl -e 'print crypt($ARGV[0], "password")' $password) # passing the password entered

"useradd -u $uid -p $pass -c "$comment $commentstatic" -d $homedir -s $shell $username"

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then take the "password" variable and send that to expect so I don't have to enter it manually.