On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 01:52 +0000, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > What's the easiest way to set password for user account via script? > The most common tool would be fine, even if it means that the password > has to be clear text. > > Thanks > > -- > Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) > http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ > http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ > >
You can write passwords directly to /etc/shadow as root, but it's rather dangerous to do, but I shouldn't be here to warn you and caution you since you should already know all this, on to the example: echo "user_password"|openssl passwd -1 -stdin $id$salt$encrypted_password root:$1$RsTbBahJ$2NjYxhHostQUasMcczo1T0:14824:0:99999:7::: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1281409266.14430.123.ca...@envygeeks
