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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Help in setting up password without Interaction. Post 8146 by syedifti on Saturday 6th of October 2001 02:20:24 PM
Old 10-06-2001
Don't want to use useradd command to create a new user
I am doing manual addition of accounts. Actually I am writing a script and I am working on RedHat7.1 system. What I am trying to do is run the script and pass all the values of the username password and group as command line parameters. Now what I am trying to do is after passing the initial password I want the account to be activated with that password. Because if you simply edit the passwd file and add the username, password and other information when you test the account it does not recognize the account and then as a root user you have to go and enter the password again and then it gets written to the shadow file in encrypted form(even if you user command "pwconv" does not write the password to the shadow file in the encrypted form). P;us I can't leave the acconts open either. To create 500 account or more It will take me long a time to create those accounts. I just want to automate those password writing to the shadow file without having to go through this command
passwd <username>
enter new password in Unix ******
So, if anyone knows how can I do this through the script please let me know.
regards
-Iftikhar
 

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vipw

VIPW(8) 						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						   VIPW(8)

NAME

     vipw -- edit the password file

SYNOPSIS

     vipw

DESCRIPTION

     Vipw edits the password file after setting the appropriate locks, and does any necessary processing after the password file is unlocked.  If
     the password file is already locked for editing by another user, vipw will ask you to try again later. The default editor for vipw is vi(1).

     Vipw performs a number of consistency checks on the password entries, and will not allow a password file with a ``mangled'' entry to be
     installed.  If vipw rejects the new password file, the user is prompted to re-enter the edit session.

     Once the information has been verified, vipw uses pwd_mkdb(8) to update the user database.  This is run in the background, and, at very large
     sites could take several minutes.	Until this update is completed, the password file is unavailable for other updates and the new information
     is not available to programs.

ENVIRONMENT

     If the following environment variable exists it will be utilized by vipw:

     EDITOR  The editor specified by the string EDITOR will be invoked instead of the default editor vi(1).

SEE ALSO

     chpass(1), passwd(1), passwd(5), pwd_mkdb(8)

HISTORY

     The vipw command appeared in 4.0BSD.

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