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To: ScaryG <freymann@scaryg.shacknet.nu>
From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to>
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Subject: Re: adduser in a perl script question
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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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