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Here is a small bash script that will create a user from a list that you can pipe it complete with setting and printing a random password. This was for mail users so I set the shell to false.

#!/bin/bash



while read USER; do

   PASS=`< /dev/urandom tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_ | head -c8`

   /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false $USER

   echo $PASS | passwd $USER --stdin

   echo "User: $USER / Pass: $PASS"

done;