topic Re: Add new user with password in Operating System - HP-UX

Add new user with password

Eblyn Solis — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:22:44 GMT

Hi,

I want to add new user in HPUX 11.11 but I want to assing the password from commaand line without user input.

Re: Add new user with password

Tingli — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:23:53 GMT

Yes, you can. There is some command as passwd.sam does the trick.

Re: Add new user with password

Jeff_Traigle — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:54:37 GMT

You must have the password hashed already.

/usr/sam/lbin/usermod.sam -p hashedpasswd

Although useradd.sam states it has this option, I seem to recall it didn't work. Maybe it was fixed in a patch somewhere along the way, however.

Re: Add new user with password

Tingli — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:58:39 GMT

Yes. The encrypted password is from /etc/shadows.

Re: Add new user with password

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:05:37 GMT

Hi:

See my post in this thread:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1249875

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Add new user with password

Court Campbell — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 01:00:20 GMT

If I remember correctly, the commands won't work with trusted systems.

Re: Add new user with password

Javed Khan_1 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:24:44 GMT

Hi,

if you have expect installed on your system you can assign password to user using command

autopasswd username newpassword

Regards,
Javed

Re: Add new user with password

Eblyn Solis — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:06:31 GMT

Thanks for your help