shell script problem

[rizzler]

Hello. I am trying to make this shell script bellow work on my server wich should take the names in newacc.cvs and add them to the system. For each user the script should ask me to enter a password for the user im adding and then add them to the system, however my current solution do not work atm as when i run the script it dont stop to let me enter a password at all at the passwd echo, it just runs past it :/ do someone know how to make this work? using READ read -p "Enter your password" PASS

echo $PASS" and the same thing happens

 

Example from newacc.cvs

 

maria;jones

andreas;öring

 

Script

 

#!/bin/sh

if [ "$#" == "0" ]
then

cat newacc.cvs | while IFS=';'  read firstname surname;
do

    useradd $firstname -m
    echo  added $firstname to the system
    passwd $firstname
    cd /home/$firstname/
    maildirmake.courier Maildir
    echo Maildir Created for $firstname


done
  exit 0

[trq]

Are you executing this script as root?

[rizzler]

Are you executing this script as root?

 

yes i am.

[steviewdr]

That script wont work. Your going to have to prompt the user for a password in bash, and then send the password into useradd.

 

useradd username -p password

 

-steve