On 11 Jul 2002, Devin Heitmueller wrote: > * It requires all sorts of shell escaping for input (since it takes the > username on the command line), > * You can't set the initial password, > * You have to parse stderr in order to get error feedback. > > I tend to agree with John. It would be worthwhile if there was a > programmatic interface to useradd, perhaps as a library. The useradd > binary could be just a wrapper to the library. > > -Devin perhaps i'm totally misunderstanding the question, but it's dead easy to create and configure a new account with useradd. # useradd <username> # passwd -d <username> # remove the lock on that account (has no password now) # echo "ozzy" | passwd --stdin <username> # assign a new password if you want and what else was necessary? rday
