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From: dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org>
To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@megadeth.org>
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Subject: Re: Adding Users with a shell script
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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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