How to create a user with given password on SuSE from command line?

Question

I need to create bunch of new users with given password. What I want is a script that I would pass the user name of new user and it will create/add the user and set its password. (the password is the same for all new users - no security issues here.)

Any suggestions how to do that on SuSE from command line?

Answer 1

Does SuSE useradd have the -p option? That takes the password (albeit in encrypted form, but you should be able to generate that I think).

So useradd -p <crypt'ed password> <new username> should do it I think

Answer 2

You can create a shell script like this:

#!/bin/bash
echo "Type the username:"
read USERNAME
echo "Type the pass:"
stty -echo
read PWD
stty echo
useradd -p ${PWD} ${USERNAME}

Answer 3

Can be done in two steps.

1. First create users with useradd command
2. On the second run something like this

   cat 1.txt | while read line; do echo "12345" | passwd --stdin $(echo ${line}); done
   

   where 1.txt is a file containing the list of logins.

Answer 4

for i in `cat userlist`
do
useradd $i
echo "$i:your_password"|chpasswd
done

userlist should contain list of users to be created.