rebuilding accounts

[Ryan Golhar]

Try escaping the quotes with backslashes.  I have a script that does
something similar....it first checks to make sure the user is a valid
university account....here's my code.  It also prompts the user to enter
a password (in a bash shell script):
 
        print "Adding user $username...\n";
        `/usr/sbin/useradd "$username" -g users -c \"$realname\"`;
        `passwd $username`;

 
 

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Ryan Golhar
Computational Biologist
The Informatics Institute at
The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ

Phone: 973-972-5034
Fax: 973-972-7412
Email: golharam at umdnj.edu 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Johnson, Shaunn
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 4:45 PM
To: 'General Red Hat Linux discussion list'
Subject: rebuilding accounts



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 

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