How to automatically add user account AND password with a Bash script?

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ModernCarpentry picture ModernCarpentry · Jan 27, 2010 · Viewed 378.1k times · Source

I need to have the ability to create user accounts on my Linux (Fedora 10) and automatically assign a password via a bash script(or otherwise, if need be).

It's easy to create the user via Bash e.g.:

[whoever@server ]#  /usr/sbin/useradd newuser

Is it possible to assign a password in Bash, something functionally similar to this, but automatically:

[whoever@server ]# passwd newuser
Changing password for user testpass.
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password: 
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.
[whoever@server ]#

Answer

SilverDaemon picture SilverDaemon · Oct 9, 2011

You could also use chpasswd:

echo username:new_password | chpasswd

so, you change password for user username to new_password.

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