OS Ubuntu 18.04
I am trying to add a user, with password, home directory, create a group with the same name, using a bash script.
I tried:
sudo useradd -U -m -p $(openssl passwd -1 'some_password') test
The user was created, here's the entry from /etc/passwd:
test:x:1004:1004::/home/test:/bin/sh
The home directory was created:
/home/test
and the group was created.
The problem, is that when I try doing:
su test
It asks me for a password, but when I enter the password, I get the following error:
su: Authentication failure
PS: I realize the dangers of adding passwords to bash scripts, but this is not what I am doing. The script asks the user to enter the password, and uses it in the script like this:
sudo useradd -U -m -p $(openssl passwd -1 '$password') $username
Any ideas?
On the same system, I tried using useradd, to add a test2 user, and entered the password. I was able to su with test2
For diagnostics purposes, I created a bash script doit.sh and had in it:
passwd='SomePassword1234'
username='test2'
sudo useradd -U -m -p $(openssl passwd -1 '$password') $username
I ran it as:
bash -x doit.sh
Here's the output:
ubuntu@myserver:~$ bash -x doit.sh
+ passwd=SomePassword1234
+ username=test2
++ openssl passwd -1 '$password'
+ sudo useradd -U -m -p '$1$okAtvbfD$hVwD0AoMWR5AiTw.9Bztf.' test2
and I try to su:
ubuntu@myserver:~$ su test2
Password:
su: Authentication failure
ubuntu@myserver:~$
