I’m looking into setting up a user via a script without having the user manually set a new password. Normally, I’d go through these steps: Create the user useradd -m testuser Set the password for the user passwd testuser The only issue is that this initiates the following prompt: [image] Is…

Are you trying to execute from the controller itself or remotely ? If the script is executed remotely, you can take a look to “expect” https://linux.die.net/man/1/expect Otherwise you can use the script of the config-tools used by the WBM : /etc/config-tools/config_user user=admin new-password=…

Is it possible to add this new user to one of the existing groups?

I don’t know for the config-tools script but with useradd yes : useradd admin2 --groups wbmadmin, admin passwd admin2 This will create an admin2 user which will be able to connect to WBM (because it belongs to wbmadmin) and SSH (because it belongs to admin group)

Could try chpasswd, with pipe e.g. echo ‘testuser:newpassword’ | sudo chpasswd

chpasswd command is unfortunately not supported on WAGO controller.

Thanks! I was able to add the user to a group with usermod -a -G groupname username Additionally, I was informed that you can edit /etc/groups to add a user to a group. A reboot is then required. [image]

Hello, can I send config_user with special charakcters. Somethink like /etc/config-tools/config_user user=admin new-password=xvFM%#2Xwr9 confirm-password=xvFM%#2Xwr9 old-password=wago. From wbm I can change pasword to xvFM%#2Xwr9 but from comadline it is not working… Thanks

you can call from root: passwd admin or just passwd from admin account also from config-tool (from root accout): /etc/config-tools/config_user user=admin new-password=wago1 confirm-password=wago1 old-password=wago

Hello, my problem is with particular characters like %,+,*… From WBM I can set this password and it is also working for WMB login but if I use it for cmd line then it is not working for WBM login. For ssh it working … Thanks

Also passwd is not working for WBM login I have to use /etc/config-tools/config_user

Wago user creation via command line (User management)

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WagoDamRud September 24, 2025, 12:19pm 12

it depends on FW version, because from FW20 linux users who are in a group “wbm-admin” or “wbm-user” can access wbm:

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Wago user creation via command line (User management)

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