That doesn't answer the question...Kiran appears to want to be able to
change a password (I'm assuming another user, and doing it as root)
without being asked to confirm the password a second time.
On that note, I'll start out by saying that, if it is possible to do,
it's dangerous. If you, as the administrator, change a password, and
mistype it, you risk the user not being able to access the account, and
you'll have to repeat the process.
That having been said, I did a man passwd when this question first came
through, and I did not see any sort of command combination/option to
allow bypassing the password confirmation.
Unless someone more knowledgeable than I (and believe me, I know that
there are) knows of a way to do this using just the passwd command, I'd
like to know (even if it had to do with entering the password 2x on the
command line).
Another method would be to write a quick shell script to do exactly what
you want.
On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Dan Horth wrote:
> if you're changing your own password then just do:
>
> passwd
>
> if you're logged in as root to change someone else's password do:
>
> passwd username
>
> and... well... that's about it! :)
>
> man passwd
>
> may help you too!
>
> - dan.
>
> At 5:17 PM +0530 1/11/00, Kiran Kumar M wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >How can I change the password at the command line itself,
> >for ex.: passwd <userid> <password>
> >I want to eliminate the confirmation.
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