Creating user accounts through ARD3 on client machines

Question

Hello. I am trying to create a secondary local admin account on some machines that are running ARD3/OS X 10.4.8. Right now, I am using only one machine as a test before attempting this on the several hundred machines I need to do this on.
I used this old thread as a reference:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1112351&#1112351
Using these instructions, I am able to connect to the ARD client machines and send them the UNIX commands as root. Here are the commands I am using in order:
echo 'admin2::512:512::0:0:admin2:/Users/admin2:/bin/bash' | niload -v passwd /
echo 'admin2:*:512:admin2' | niload -v group /
niutil -appendprop / /groups/admin users admin2
Using these commands, I can successfully create a user account named "admin2", with no password, create a group named admin2, and also make user admin2 a member of the admin group.
The problem I am having is using the passwd command through ARD. The passwd username command requires you to type the password in twice and you get the following output:
New password:
Changing password for admin2.
Password unchanged.
I have also attempted to add the password in the first command that is sent in Field 2, like so:
echo 'admin2:password:512:512::0:0:admin2:/Users/admin2:/bin/bash' | niload -v passwd /
However, when I try to login, it will not let me login using the pasword I specified the above command. The only way this works is if I execute the passwd command.
Is there any way in ARD that I can change a user password on another machine -or- is there a syntax for the passwd command that I can use to change the password without entering it twice?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I would email the author of the solution "shayaan", but an email address is not listed and the original thread is locked.
Thanks,
Jason

Answer 1

found answer in another thread.