On Monday, Dec 22nd 2003 at 18:49 +0600, quoth Sanjeewa Wijerathne:
=>Quoting John Haxby <jch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
=>
=>> Tony Arcus wrote:
=>> =>> >Anybody got a script that would read a txt type file with user names and =>> >passwds, adds then and sets up the passwd?
=>> >I have schools with hundreds of students and don't what to type this by
=>> hand.
=>> > =>> >
=>> while read name password; do
=>> useradd -p "$password" "$name"
=>> done < file
=>> =>
=>If you dont have encrypted passwords in the file, you can use a bit modyfied
=>version of =>John Haxby's script,
=>
=>while read name password; do
=> useradd "$name"
=> echo "$password" | passwd --stdin "$name"
=>done < file
This will not work. passwd does not read from stdin. It reads from /dev/tty. Probably the easiest way to accomplish what you want is to run expect.
Last time I checked this did work. See man passwd.
Rob
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