[Gllug] non-interactive passwd

[Matthew King]

> ah, but the -p switch will require the encrypted form of the password,
> if you  are using shadow ( i have been caught out by this), but i
> suppose this is  scriptable (I haven't tried).
> --------------from man useradd------------------------------------ -p
> passwd
> The encrypted password, as returned by crypt(3).
> The default is  to  disable  the account.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------

useradd .... -p $(mkpasswd cleartext [optional-salt])

Matthew

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