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Date:      Fri, 28 Dec 2001 12:01:58 -0600
From:      Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to>
To:        ScaryG <freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: adduser in a perl script question
Message-ID:  <15404.45974.412120.691151@apu.five.sight>
In-Reply-To: <20011228101438.187f0eb0.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu>
References:  <20011228101438.187f0eb0.freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu>

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> I'm trying to automate the creation of a new user in a perl5
> script...  I need to set the password which is why I'm not using
> pw. The man pages for pw talk about a pipe for the password but
> there are no examples.

I think you want this:

  $ echo mypassword | pw useradd myname -h 0

Lucas


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