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From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <gollucci@wam.umd.edu>
To: ScaryG <freymann@eagle.ca>
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Subject: Re: How to adduser from script?
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I don't know if this is a good idea, but I have a web based login
system.  It creates the users in a MySQL database.  This is all fine and
good, but I want to also add them as system users in master.passwd  .  It
is my understanding that I need to do some kind of setuid script like the
one below.  Anyone how or where to look.


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On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, ScaryG wrote:

> 
> On 21 Jan 2002 at 10:26, Joe & Fhe Barbish wrote:
> 
> > I am building a disaster recovery script. 
> > I need to add 2 users, backup tape user, 
> > and remote admin user. 
> > Is there a command line command that I can do this with?
> 
>  I just recently did some tinkering with this, and the following works fine 
> in a perl script:
> 
> #/usr/bin/perl
> 
> $password = "abc123";
> $shell = "/sbin/nologin";
> $username = "lusername";
> 
>  `echo $password |/usr/sbin/pw adduser -s $shell -m -n 
> $username -d /home/$username -h 0`;
> 
>  Have fun.
> 
> gf
> 
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