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[ILUG] How to automate password creation

[ILUG] How to automate password creation

Fergal Daly fergal at esatclear.ie
Thu Jun 22 12:18:09 IST 2000


At 13:00 22/06/00, Niall  O Broin wrote:
>You could use this as is in conjunction with your scripts and modify
>/etc/passwd (or /etc/shadow) as appropriate. Alternatively, you could read
>the man pages for useradd and then use this program to generate the
>arguments to the -p switch of useradd.

or use chpasswd to modify a whole load of passwords in batch (takes plain 
or encrypted),

Fergal






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