is it possible to do this then:

my $epassword = `openssl passwd -apr1 -salt '$1' '$password'`;



!system ('useradd', '-g', 'users',
                    '-d', "/home/$username",
                    '-p', $epassword,
                    '-s', '/bin/false',
                    '-c', $fullname,
                    $username) or die "Creation of User Failed";
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