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Re: Offtopic: Setting Passwords



Hi Bill,

Check out the 'newusers' command - it will do what you want for a large
list of new entries!

HTH,

Chris

Bill Tihen -- STAFF wrote:
> 
> I am using the new Redhat 6.0 and need to generate 300 new accounts.  I have a text file exported from our school database.  I am randomly generating passwords -- however, the new RH6.0 version of useradd doesn not seem to use the -p (password) option anymore.
> 
> How do I automatically enter passwords with account creation?
> 
> Thanks Bill

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