Add new user with password

[Eblyn Solis]

Hi,

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

[Tingli]

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

[Jeff_Traigle]

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.

[Tingli]

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

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

See my post in this thread:

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

Regards!

...JRF...

[Court Campbell]

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

[Javed Khan_1]

Hi,

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

autopasswd username newpassword

Regards,
Javed

[Eblyn Solis]

Thanks for your help