Linux - Scripting User Creation

[Jasonh100]

I need to know how I can create users from either a Perl script or a batch script.

the script would need to take the username and password from command line parameters and use useradd (unless there is a more technical way that would be easier) and smbpasswd (unless there is a more technical way that would be easier) to add a user to the linux system and to the samba system.

thanks!

 

[Nothinman]

Do you know anything about scripting or perl? This would be simple to do in bash+expect or perl.

 

[notfred]

#!/usr/bin/perl
`adduser $ARGV[0]`;
`passwd $ARGV[0] $ARGV[1]`;

That passwd command wont work, but I couldn't think of a way to update a password on one line. you get the idea, though.

 

[Nothinman]

If you're just gonna use `` to execute add user and passwd why not just use a shell script?

Anyway you need to interact with passwd and smbpasswd, so expect or perl's redirecting open() would be necessary.