Question

I want to write GUI aplication for creating linux users in pyGTK. In linux console it’s not a problem, because of the commands useradd and adduser, but I don’t know how to do that via GUI application?

I want to create GUI form with 3 entries (first “name”, second “password”, third “confirm password”) and button “add”. I don’t know how to send variable with password to useradd and adduser commands. What option should I use? Or there is another way?

Answer 1

You can call something like

useradd -m -p PASSWORD

where PASSWORD is what you get as a result of crypt() function defined in unistd.h.

As you’ve found out yourself, in the case of Python it looks like this

import os 
import crypt 

password ="testpassword"
encPass = crypt.crypt(Password,"salt")
os.system("useradd -p "+encPass+" someuser ")