Oops. Make that useradd. forward - original mail: 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. >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com >>The most personalized portal on the Web! >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Wayne Johnson" <waynej at dccmn.com> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Default user password (Still not solved!) Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 00:38:44 +0000 Size: 3794 Url: http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030302/6200e54d/attachment.mht