[Techtalk] script for adding users

[Devdas Bhagat]

On 09/05/04 20:39 +1000, wendy wrote:
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> I've printed out the techtalkers script and filed it under extremely
> important. Wish I had asked earlier before I spent so much time trying
> to generate random passwords for the accounts.  This will no doubt come
> in very handy.
[devdas at evita devdas]$ whatis mkpasswd
mkpasswd             (1)  - generate new password, optionally apply it
to a user

A very handy tool when generating random passwords. Needs expect.

> Just a question...if I didn't want the passwords to expire, could I just
> comment out:
> 
> system("/usr/bin/chage -M 90 -d %s %s" % (olddate, username))	
Yes.

Devdas Bhagat