I am trying to create a shell script that will:The problem that I need help with is 3 on Solaris and AIX.

I can do 1 (using the id command) and 2 (using mkgroup or groupadd and useradd commands), but setting the password is where I am having problems. I have got it to work on Linux by redirecting input to the passwd command but I can not find how to get the same functionality to work on AIX and Solaris. This is what I have so far:

Code:

 
PLATFORM=`uname`
id $NEW_USER_ID > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ "$?" != "0" ]
then
   echo "$NEW_USER_ID user does not exist. Attempting to create user and group"
 
   if [ "$PLATFORM" = "AIX" ]
   then
      mkgroup $NEW_GROUP
   else
      groupadd $NEW_GROUP
   fi
   if [ "$?" != "0" ]
   then
      echo "Failed to create group"
   fi
 
   useradd -g $NEW_GROUP -s /usr/bin/ksh $NEW_USER_ID 
   if [ "$?" != "0" ]
   then
      echo "Failed to create $NEW_USER_ID user"
   fi
 
   if [ "$PLATFORM" = "Linux" ]
   then
      passwd --stdin $NEW_USER_ID <<EOF
$NEW_PASSWD
$NEW_PASSWD
EOF
 
      if [ "$?" != "0" ]
      then
         echo "Failed to set $NEW_USER_ID password"
      fi
   fi
fi

I've searched the forums and found some similar postings but nothing seems to answer exactly what I'm looking for.


Some additional information that might preempt some questions:If it can't be done, because of something like OS security restrictions and limitations, then please let me know and I'll stop trying to script it!

Thanks in advance for any help or pointers that anyone can provide.