Re: [Sheflug] useradd

[zzzz <nospam [at] zapata.freeserve.co.uk>]

technical wrote:

> But how can i bulk set the passwd as we are providing them with a pre set
> passwd the same as the rest of the network.
> Help
> 
> Cheers Kevin Barrass
> IT Technician Minsthorpe Community College.

perl -ne 's/^(.+?):(.+?):(.*)$/$1:cryptstring:$3/g && print' /etc/passwd

(don't actually feed it /etc/passwd, feed it only the entries of your
normal users)

Make sure you \escape any metacharacters you might have in your
encrypted
passwd string.

Jules
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