On Apr 18 10:58, Vijay K Sukthankar wrote: > > > Hi, > > I am trying to decipher how to do some of commands on a cygwin shell > remotely. I am using a Jython script to reset the Admin password and I > understand that I would have to do the following > > 1) change the password registry entry using passwd -R
Hang on. You only need to do this if you use the account for login purposes where you don't want to give your password, according to http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-setuid-overview > 2) net user Administrator <new password> Otherwise this command or just using the Cygwin passwd command without the -R option is sufficient: http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#passwd > When the command is executed it expects that a re-enter of password which I > dont want. Is there a way I can do echo passwd | passwd -R which would > change the password in registry. That's not provided for. You could try to give the password twice echo -e "${pwd}\n${pwd" | passwd but no guarantee that it works. Alternativly you write a tiny tool which calls the Win32 function NetUserChangePassword: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb706725.aspx Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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