Shell script

[Jason Clinton]

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brad wrote:

| This words great for useradd, but how then would you set the password
| for each user?
|

If you have chpasswd on your system, you could use a variation on the solution I
posted last night. If you don't have Ruby, you could modify the Perl script from
Garret:

(I know nothing about Perl, so this is only a guess)

perl -lnae 'print $F[0]+":"+$F[1]+"n"' filename | chpasswd

This would, I assume, concantenate the two columns together with a dividing ":"
followed by a newline character and then pipe that to the chpasswd command which
accepts piped data. The password can be either the shadow mask or if you add the
- -e it should be in plain text format.

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