Oops.  Make that useradd.
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  From "Wayne Johnson" <waynej at dccmn.com>
  Date 03/01/2003 - 06:39:17 pm
  Subject Re: [TCLUG] Default user password (Still not solved!)

>If you use the adduser command, add the -p option.  This, unfortunatly, requires
>that the parameter be encrypted before calling adduser, with the crypt() function.
>I wrote a bash script to do exactly this.  It has to call perl to do some of the
>dirty work.  Why don't they have a command line interface for crypt.
>
>Download it from http://dccmn.com/mkuser
>
>michael.arolan at excite.com wrote:
>>
>>
>>Thanks guys for your replies!
>>
>>I am actually developing a program that would dynamically create a user on the
>Linux box and set the password to the password supplied by the new user.
>Unfortunately, the solution you've all described requires manual intervention which
>is what we are trying to get around.  Do you know of any other way?  The program
>doing the automation is written in C and uses the system command to execute a add
>user command.  The actual request comes from the web!  So the architecture is:
>>
>>Web browser -> Java servlet -> C program (via JNI) -> user created on the Linux
>Box!
>>
>>As you can see, no manual intervention!  Do you know of anyother way to set the
>password dynammically?
>>
>>Thanks Guys
>>
>>Michael
>>
>> --- On Fri 02/28, Bob Tanner < tanner at real-time.com > wrote:
>>From: Bob Tanner [mailto: tanner at real-time.com]
>>To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
>>Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:01:27 -0600
>>Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Default user password
>>
>>On Friday 28 February 2003 12:33 pm,  wrote:
>>> Hi Guys/Ladies
>>>
>>> Does anyone know what the default password Linux uses when you create a new
>>> user from the command line?
>>
>>No password.
>>
>>Use passwd <username> to change it.
>>
>>
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