Create User With Command Line Linux Mint 10

[misfitplanet]

I'm using useradd to create a new user in using Linux Mint 10 Julia Live via command line.

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useradd tommi -g mint -d /myhomedirectory -p "password"

What Linux command does Mint encrypt the passwords here so useradd gets it the way it should? For example, I think it should look something like this:

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useradd tommi -g mint -d /myhomedirectory -p encrypt('password')

How do I add permissions to this user? The code above does create a user, but when I check the users privileges in Users and Groups, the user has no privileges checked.

[unexistance]

Hi,

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man useradd

As for the password, normally we set password in linux/unix by something like:

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$ passwd <username>
Enter Password: <blanks>
Enter Password Again: <blanks>

So no plain-text password. It auto-encrypt to /etc/shadow anyway, so you would not see the password anywhere

Regards,

[misfitplanet]

Ok, but I want to automate the process in a script, so I would be able to do this, unless there is a way to force input at this prompts by some method.