Account creation with default password

[ranjit]

Hello,

I'd like to create an account on a Solaris server with a default password. How can this be scripted?

 

[maximusGeek]

Look into a scripting tool/lang called expect. You can down load it from sunfreeware.com

 

[Annihilannic]

Alternatively you could use sed or similar to automatically update /etc/shadow with the encrypted password.

Annihilannic.

 

[Mike042]

There are already existing scripts (provided with Solaris) to add user accounts and groups. Please see the man pages for:
useradd
usermod
userdel
groupadd
groupmod
groupdel

useradd does not set a password by default. The account is created with a null/empty password.

I hope that helps.

Mike