Hi! I use some old scripts to create users on a FAI-install system. In them I run the 30-demo script from simple examples:
$ROOTCMD adduser --disabled-login --gecos "fai demo user" demo echo "demo:$ROOTPW" | $ROOTCMD chpasswd --encrypted Since Ubuntu 9.10 the chpasswd command does not accept the --encrypted switch anymore, so it is impossible to supply a pre-encrypted password that way. Is there any other way to do this and still not write the password in clear text? Kindest regards, Mathias
