Shell script problem

[chipmunken]

Ok Im trying too make this shell script create users from my text file, I also want to type in a password that will be set to the users.

 

#!/bin/sh
# Sebastian schmidt
clear
        echo "This script creates accounts for the people you have listed in the file (users) and puts them in the group it."
        echo ""
        echo "given and surname must be seperated with ( in the file (users)."
        echo "If you want to execute the script now type (yes) and press enter, else type exit and press enter."



id | grep root 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
if [ $? -eq 1 ]
then
        echo "You need to be root before running this script."
        echo "Please restart this script as root and all will be fine."
exit
fi

read svar

if [ "$svar" = "yes" ]
then
echo "Type password for the new users."
read pass

echo "Type in the path for the file (users)"
#echo $pass
read users
        groupadd it 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
        for i in `sed 's/\(..\).*@\(..\).*/\1\2/' $users`
do
        useradd -g it -p $pass -s /bin/bash -m -d /home/it09$i it09$i 2>/dev/null >/dev/null
done

echo "Done!"

elif ["$svar" = "exit"]
then
        echo "exiting script"
exit
fi

 

This is how my textfile looks like

sebastian@schmidt
sandra@fahlen
tomas@persson

 

All works fine when it comes to createing the users and home catalogs. The problem is the password wont stick.. I dont know whats wrong. When I switch to a normal user and try to su to one of the created users it asks me for a password and then it says

seb@webserver:/home$ su it09sesc

Password:

su: Authentication failure

Help wanted

[Daniel0]

From the man-page of useradd

 

      -p, --password PASSWORD

          The encrypted password, as returned by crypt(3). The default is to

          disable the account.