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From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: "Francis A. Vidal" <francis@usls.edu>
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Subject: Re: pw useradd -h option
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Francis A. Vidal wrote:

> can someone show me how to implement the `-h' option in a script? i'm
> currently testing this script:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> #
> while read username first middle last password
> do
>     fullname="$first $middle. $last"
>     ...
>     /usr/sbin/pw useradd $username -k /usr/share/uskel -s /sbin/nologin \
>         -d $homedir -c $fullname -m
> done
> 
> how do i change their password non-interactively?

echo $password | /usr/sbin/pw useradd $username -h 0

plus the other args after the -h 0, as in your script above.

> BTW, is it normal for the UID to have the same value if the -N option
> is used during the entire lifetime of the script?

Yes, looking at the manual, I would assume so. Since you're not specifying
a UID, and you're not updating the password database when you use -N, the
same UID will be used every time.

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