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Date:      Wed, 2 May 2001 18:02:57 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        Lee Smallbone <lee@kechara.net>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: useradd/adduser
Message-ID:  <20010502180257.B88365@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <200105021613.RAA25130@mailgate.kechara.net>; from lee@kechara.net on Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:59:50PM %2B0100
References:  <200105021613.RAA25130@mailgate.kechara.net>

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On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:59:50PM +0100, Lee Smallbone wrote:
> I see what you mean about the synopsis...!
> 
>  From what I can see it isn't possible to supply the password to pw?
>  I'm using md5 passwords, and can easily have the script in question encode
>  the password prior to calling pw, so is it possible to use (in the verse of 
>  pw), something along the lines of:
> 
>  pw useradd -n test -c "Test User" -d /home2/test -m -s sh $md5encpass
> 
> ?

You can't supply an *encrypted* pass; but then, you can't do this with
adduser, either.  You *can* supply a cleartext password to pw(8), just
as Sheldon said, using the -h option:

echo unf | pw useradd testuser -h 0

..just tell it to read the password from fd 0 (stdin).

G'luck,
Peter

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