I need to add about 1500 new accounts to a new system which is easy
enough to do using the useradd command. I'll just make a shell script
with all the info in it and run it.
The question I have is on how to set 1500 passwords without actually
typing them in by hand. Is there a way to set a password using a
command line argument or some way to pipe in to the passwd command.
I tried "passwd < word.txt"
Where word.txt held a password on two separate lines but I still was
prompted. I can't get passwd to accept anything from the standard
input.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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Received on Wed Sep 15 1999 - 23:41:53 NZST