It's put in there twice to make sure you typed in your password right.  It
would be really bad if you accidently mistyped your password when you created
it, and had no way of knowing it till you found out you couldn't log in.

>On the command line when you type PASSWD username it request for the
> password twice. How could I control that in my script.  It there another way or some
> switch that will not let it ask for this the second time?
> 
> Thank in advance and keep up to the good work.
> 
> Kofi Amu
> Maru a Pula School
> Gaborone

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