RE: rebuilding accounts

["Ryan Golhar" <ryangolhar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Try escaping the quotes with backslashes.  I have a script that does something similar....it first checks to make sure the user is a valid university account....here's my code.  It also prompts the user to enter a password (in a bash shell script):

 

        print "Adding user $username...\n";
        `/usr/sbin/useradd "$username" -g users -c \"$realname\"`;
        `passwd $username`;

 

 

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Ryan Golhar
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The Informatics Institute at
The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ

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-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Johnson, Shaunn
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 4:45 PM
To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
Subject: rebuilding accounts

Howdy:

Running RHEL v.3.

I'm moving user home directories to the new
server and I need to add them to passwd / shadow
and group files.  I make a script like so:

[snip]
#!/bin/bash -x

echo "building users account"
echo " "

for i in `cat /tmp/lusers.txt`
do
echo "making account for the user: $i"
echo " "
/usr/sbin/useradd -d /opt/home/$i -g users -M -p $i -s /bin/bash $i
done
[/snip]

The when I try to su - <user>, I get 'su: incorrect password'.
(note: I did this as a non-root user). I thought that
maybe I should use single or double quotes when putting
the password on the line, but the errors are always the same.

Question:  With useradd, is there a way to prompt users
for a new password upon login?  Otherwise, I will have
to write some one-liner to use 'passwd' to generate
default passwords.

Thanks!

-X

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