[Gllug] non-interactive passwd

[Xander D Harkness]

Murray Peterson wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I was wondering if there is any appropriate way of setting a password for
>a user account without running passwd interactively?
>
>essentially I am trying to automagically create accounts on a number
>boxen by script and need to do something like this: (and nis, ldap etc is
>unfortunately not an option...)
>
>passwd $USER $PASSWORD or passwd $USER << echo $PASSWORD
>
>I am trying to do this on solaris and aix, but I would imagine that
>linux would have much the same reaction :)
>
>Anyway, any ideas or pointers to friendly solaris & aix lists would be
>much appreciated!
>
>Regards
>
>Murray
>
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>
On Linux you can either use

useradd -p $password $user

or useradd $user

passwd --stdin $user < password

My Solaris box is refusing to boot at present so I could not check the 
relevant options.

Kind regards
Xander

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