Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 15:12:57 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Joe Schwartz <rjoe@sierrahill.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1 adduser -batch gone? Message-ID: <36F2CBE9.1934E6F1@softweyr.com> References: <199903191938.NAA10411@sierrahill.com>
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Joe Schwartz wrote:
>
>
> Folks,
>
> I'm migrating an ISP's NT e-mail server to FreeBSD 3.1. They've
> provided user info including:
>
> login ID, full name, passwd
>
> I've set up the script using my FreeBSD 2.8 system to create the
> adduser script which looks like:
>
> adduser -batch test4 '' '' 'MR. TEST' qwerty7
>
> Works great on 2.8 and creates a record like this:
>
> test4:$1$Yk404UY5$vsmNN4Ah1sLVZyHX.NEok1:1024:15::0:0:MR. TEST:/home/test4:/bin/
> csh.
>
>
> I tried running he script on the 3.1 machine and got a:
>
> '-batch no longer supported' error message.
>
> I was originally going to use 'pw', but not not understand
> how to use it to set a passwd. Am I overlooking this option?
>
> HELP, I don't want to do this by hand and could sure use some
> advice on how to programatically make these users.
Look at the -h option. This prevents you from passing the password on
the command line, where it can be viewed by other users. This seems
to work entirely adequately:
pw useradd foobar -u 2525 -h 0 <<EOF
fubar
<<EOF
This creates user foobar with uid 2525* and password fubar. This should
be easy enough to do in your script.
*If man is still alive. See zaeger(5) and evans(8). ;^)
--
Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061
Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com
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