[K12OSN] creating accounts

[NONE NONE]

Yeah I just discovered this on some website. Is there any way to automate the password setting then? I can't manually type in the password for so many students. I assume generating my own md5 and giving it to the -p parameter won't work. And the passwd command requires you to type, I need it to be done in this script... Why is there even a -p parameter, if you can't use it?

----- Original Message -----
From: Henry Hartley <henryhartley at westat.com>
Date: Friday, September 30, 2005 1:34 pm
Subject: RE: RE: [K12OSN] creating accounts

> On Friday, September 30, 2005 4:04 PM, NONE NONE said:
> >> 
> >> Thank you, that worked, except I still can't log in on that
> >> account? What are some reasons why an account wouldn't be able
> >> to log in? If I create one with the users and groups gui, it
> >> can log in fine, but the useradd created accounts never can.
> 
> Ah, yes.  Sorry.  Try leaving off the password part and then set
> it separately.  I think you're suppose to supply the encrypted
> password, not the plaintext (see man useradd and man crypt).
> 
> 	useradd -c "Some Student" -m -G GradeK astudent
> 
> then:
> 
> 	passwd astudent
> 
> -- 
> Henry
> 
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