Re: [suse-sparc] useradd problems

From: Martin Herren (sputnik_at_on-the-web.ch)
Date: Tue Dec 24 2002 - 10:28:17 CET

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From: Martin Herren <sputnik@on-the-web.ch>
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Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] useradd problems

    On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 05:55:19 +0000
    M Hoskison <matth@room41.com> wrote:

    > RedHat allows you to pipe a password into useradd by using the --stdio
    > switch. SuSE 7.3 for Sparc doesn't permit this option, nor does it appear to
    > present one similar. Could anyone suggest an alternative that allows a script
    > (PHP shell_exec()'ing bash, but that should be immaterial) to create a user
    > account and set its password?

    create the account with useradd, and to change/create the password in batch, you can use chpasswd

    hth

    Martin 

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