Need Help - Creating a new user account script

[brendan11]

Folks,
I need a script that creates a new user account and assigns a password. This script will be called from a program that will pass the login and password. Also if the program is not running as root how do I get the script to run as root so that it can create the user?
Thanks.

 

[patel]

Hi Brendan,
You can use software program called super for HP. sudo for sun to assign root access to particular program.
in sort you can run a program with uid 0.

For script
1. Use useradd command.
2. for uid grep the /etc/passwd's last line 3rd field and increment one for new user id.
3. if you are using NIS run /var/yp/make passwd.

Sachin