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Date:      Tue, 3 Apr 2001 18:59:21 -0700
From:      dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org>
To:        Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org>
Cc:        bsd-freak@mbox.com.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Adding Users with a shell script
Message-ID:  <20010403185921.K40739@dell.dannyland.org>
In-Reply-To: <01eb01c0b8e0$e29b7d80$fe48a93f@shawn>; from shawn@megadeth.org on Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:15:56PM -0800
References:  <27396d277a9b.277a9b27396d@mbox.com.au> <01eb01c0b8e0$e29b7d80$fe48a93f@shawn>

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On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 10:15:56PM -0800, Shawn Ramsey wrote:
[...]
> Have you looked at "pw" ? It is completly non-interactive, and pretty much
> anything parameter can be passed to it.

echo secret | pw useradd foo -s /sbin/noshell -h /home/foo -m -h 0

That last argument, -h 0, reads password in from stdin.  Assuming your shell
implements echo internally, then the password need never appear in the system
process table.

-danny

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