[horndude]

download the shadow 4.03 package, it has all the login and passwd tools, modify the passwd.c file and the other files it uses as needed and recompile them, then use that

this isnt easy, my C programming skills suck, wish I could help more

you should be able to use an unshadowed passwd for the users but that is a security risk, see the passwd or shadow how-to at http://www.tldp.org

[horndude]

if you want to just set up a user/password system bypassing the linux shadow password system you can do that too, but it would probably be better to use php or MySQL or soemthing if its gonna be a website, and its still a security issue

[mebrahim]

Originally posted by spyro187
Does anyone know of a good script that can add a single user and password. I need to pass it a username and password and have it add them automatically .

just use :
useradd -m -p password username
(-m is to create home directory which can be ommited)

The problem I am having with scripting it is that I can't figure out how to pass the password when promted.

You can always redirect stdio:
passwd < file_containing_your_password_in_1st_and_2nd_line_ and_nothing_more
But .. not beautiful!