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Old 03-21-2006
modgil modgil is offline
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Angry I want to append password in /etc/shadow file

Hi,
I want to append password into /etc/shadow file using a shell script.
My below script does add the users to both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow but how can I add the hordcoded passwords to /etc/shadow file can some one help me ?


# To add the groups into /etc/group file

for a_user in nortel admin netmgr master operator ttbuser orbix oracle
do
/usr/sbin/useradd $a_user >> one
done