Creating a user without its account being disabled

Question

Is there a way to create a new standard user, who can log in immediately? When I create users through a shell script, the users do get created, but they are disabled. Is there are way to create them so that they can log in without additional actions?

I use Ubuntu 16.04

what do you mean they are disabled? what command are you using to create them? — Zanna, May 13 '17 at 16:55
@Zanna I think his using the old useradd where no password is given to the user hence the user is disable until a password is set... — George Udosen, May 13 '17 at 16:58
seems likely @George :) if so question is sure to be a duplicate. Right now it's just unclear — Zanna, May 13 '17 at 17:01
Pass in the -p user_password option in the script that should solve the problem — George Udosen, May 13 '17 at 17:15
Also saw this neat trick echo username:new_password | chpasswd here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2150882/how-to-automatically-add-user-account-and-password-with-a-bash-script. Like this one as it encrypts the password — George Udosen, May 13 '17 at 17:17
If you are creating accounts programatically, you should consider using the newusers command: see for example Importing users that will be installed by programs — steeldriver, May 13 '17 at 17:23
@Zanna right now I use adduser And what I mean is that you can't log in into the newly created account, until you manually enable it — Lenton, May 13 '17 at 17:28

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:39

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Since you can create a user then your script works, now use the chpasswd tool to create a password for your users as without this, they won't be able to sign in after creation.

echo username:username | chpasswd

Source:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2150882/how-to-automatically-add-user-account-and-password-with-a-bash-script

edited May 23 '17 at 12:39

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answered May 13 '17 at 17:32

George Udosen

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Creating a user without its account being disabled

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