chpasswd will do exactly what you want. Ernest Johanson Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary
On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, James Williamson wrote: > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 07:10:13 +0000 > From: James Williamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Change password from shellscript > > On Monday 15 Dec 2003 7:04 pm, Peter wrote: > > Howdie, > > > > I want to make a shellscript with the ability to change a > > userspassword. I can't get it to work properly because when i say > > passwd user i will have to enter the password is there a way or a > > switch todo this in a style like passwd user password > > My version of passwd has a --stdin switch which'll read the=20 > password from STDIN, i.e. > > echo $password | passwd --stdin $username > > If your's doesn't you may want to take a look at expect. > > James > > > > > Thankz, > > Peter > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
