useradd fails - skript to generate users

[Franz Waldmüller]

Markus Schönhaber schrieb:
> 
> You probably wanted to use backticks "`" or $(...) instead of "'" here.
> Otherwise $PASS will be "mkpasswd $PASSWORD" verbatim.
> 
Thank you Markus for your advice.
On friday I solved my problem by assigning 100 users their passwords 
manually.
Today I tried your solution.
The useradd command still fails. As the stdin command for passwd has 
been disabled in Debian I assume that something similar has happened 
with the useradd command.

Although I don't have an urgent need any more to automatically add users 
from a list. I am still interested in a solution.
It is not necessary to assign the password from the list. A random 
password would be sufficient but the script should output the generated 
passwords to a textfile.

Once I have a solution I will try to post it to some Ubuntu/Linux Wiki Page.

Franz