<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 5.5.2657.34"> <TITLE>rebuilding accounts</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Howdy: Running RHEL v.3. I'm moving user home directories to the new server and I need to add them to passwd / shadow and group files. I make a script like so: [snip] #!/bin/bash -x echo "building users account" echo " " for i in `cat /tmp/lusers.txt` do echo "making account for the user: $i" echo " " /usr/sbin/useradd -d /opt/home/$i -g users -M -p $i -s /bin/bash $i done [/snip] The when I try to su - <user>, I get 'su: incorrect password'. (note: I did this as a non-root user). I thought that maybe I should use single or double quotes when putting the password on the line, but the errors are always the same. Question: With useradd, is there a way to prompt users for a new password upon login? Otherwise, I will have to write some one-liner to use 'passwd' to generate default passwords. Thanks! -X </BODY> </HTML>