changing a linux users password [closed]

Question

I'd like to execute a command on a remote vm that creates a user and specifies their password.

using sshpass, I can remotely execute commands as root, e.g.

sshpass -p "rootpasswd" ssh root@remotevm '<remote command here>'

So I want to create a user, which I can do with

adduser <username>

Next I want to use usermod to create a password:

usermod --password <encrypted_pass> <user>

I want to be able to specify the password bananas - so how can I encrypt the string bananas so that I can specify bananas as the encrypted password for the user?

Answer 1

As root, you can set a password for the user:

passwd username

Answer 2

Try chpasswd:

echo "user:password_here" | chpasswd