Adding new users and assigning passwords

[whizza]

The commands in 'pem' work ok if I type them
at the command line. Why will they not work
in a script?


Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf)
Kernel 2.4.2-2 on an i686

# ls -l pem
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 94 Jul 8 19:44 pem

# cat pem
/usr/sbin/useradd -g popusers -s /bin/false merves02
echo d2ksd6b | passwd --stdin merves02

# ./pem
'seradd: invalid user name `merves02
'asswd: Unknown user name 'merves02

#

 

[un1xh3ad]

Hello

I would use send/expect to do this ( if you have to ).
I never had much luck with the approach you are using either. See man expect

Neil

 

[whizza]

Sorted. Needed to run dos2unix on the script.

 

[tsd8]

Can any tell me how to create multiple users in linux on fly with any script or command.

cheers