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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting One script and some questions Post 302821469 by techy1 on Friday 14th of June 2013 02:39:46 PM
Old 06-14-2013
to make the password invisable you can use this:

Code:
stty -echo
print -n Enter password: 
stty echo

 

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lgroupmod(8)						      System Manager's Manual						      lgroupmod(8)

NAME
lgroupmod - Modify an user group SYNOPSIS
lgroupmod [OPTION]... group DESCRIPTION
Modifies the user group with name group. OPTIONS
-A, --admin-add=list Add users in comma-separated list among group's administrators. -a, --admin-remove=list Remove users in comma-separated list from group's administrators. Removing users that are not currently among group's administra- tors silently succeeds. -g, --gid=gid Change group's group ID to gid. -i, --interactive Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration. -L, --lock Lock group. This prevents users from using the group password with newgrp(1) to become a member of group. -M, --member-add=list Add users in comma-separated list among group's members. -m, --member-remove=list Remove users in comma-separated list from group's members. Removing users that are not currently among group's members silently succeeds. -n, --name=name Rename group to name. -P, --plainpassword=password Set group's password to password. Note that the password can be viewed while running lgroupmod using tools such as ps(1). -p, --password=encrypted Set group's password to the password represented by the hash encrypted. Note that the hash can be viewed while running lgroupmod using tools such as ps(1). -U, --unlock Unlock group. EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error. libuser Jan 11 2005 lgroupmod(8)
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