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Date:      Mon, 21 Jan 2002 10:37:28 -0500
From:      "ScaryG" <freymann@eagle.ca>
To:        "Joe & Fhe Barbish" <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, "FBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: How to adduser from script?
Message-ID:  <3C4BEF68.32535.78858E@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <LPBBIGIAAKKEOEJOLEGOMEDNCNAA.barbish@a1poweruser.com>

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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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