useradd fails - skript to generate users

[Markus Schönhaber]

Franz Waldmüller:

> Today I tried your solution.
> The useradd command still fails.

And what is the error message?

Tip: to see how the command to be executed really looks like, precede it
with echo, e. g.
echo useradd --password $PASS -m -d $HOME_BASE/$USER $USER -e 2009-12-31
or, probably even better, use bash's
set -x
in your script to make it print the commands and their arguments as they
are executed.

> As the stdin command for passwd has 
> been disabled in Debian I assume that something similar has happened 
> with the useradd command.

What has stdin to do with the problem? You used useradd's --password
command line option to set the password - something which, BTW, works
fine for me.

-- 
Regards
  mks