UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

HP-UX 11

I currently have a script that is running useradd and passwd commands to automate setting up new users. It was originally designed so that passwd was run with -d -f to delete a passwd and force user to set passwd at next login. Now mgmt wants instead to set a first-time passwd and have the user change it at next login. Assuming the script "knows" (that is, has passed to it) what to use as a first-time passwd, how can I set it?
useradd doesn't seem to have that option
passwd only will do it interactively and I don't have *expect* to handle this - I thought maybe sam commands could do it - but now I can't find the man page for those to double check. Any ideas?

Lisa

You could obtain expect at The HP-UX Porting and Archive Centre. As for sam, it is interactive by nature. But it uses an undocumented feature. /usr/sam/lbin/useradd.sam is a symlink to useradd. userradd checks its name. If it's useradd.sam, a -p option becomes available. However the argument must be the encrypted password. It's hard to encrypt a password in a ksh script. But this might be an ioption if you have the encrypted string. Also I wrote a script that uses telnet to change passwords on multiple systems. That technique could be used to change a password on the localhost.

changepass automate password changes on multiple systems

LisaS ... set your password to something generic and use the encrypted string in your script ... then reset your password so your password is different from the one the script uses ...