Shell Script Password Change

Good Day,

After figuring out a problem I had adding users to my edgy eft FTP server (described in this thread), I want to write a shell script that creates a user, and then automatically resets that users password. So far, I've got this:

Code:

#!/bin/sh

sudo useradd $1 -p $2 -d /home/$1 -m

And this works well, but I would like to immediately reset this new user's password.

Are there switches to make passwd NOT prompt for the OLD password to be entered?

I've also tried with chpasswd, but that seemed to just hang.

Can anyone suggest any other methods?

Thanks,

Milty

 

Alright - scratch it

I'll just use

Code:

sudo passwd [I]username[/I]

Only a small extra step.