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Angel Tsankov
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 Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 11:47 am Post subject: redirectin input for passwd?
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How can I set/change the password for some user noninteractively, e.g. by reading it from a file in plain text? |
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Michael Heiming
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 11:48 am Post subject: Re: redirectin input for passwd? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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In comp.os.linux.misc Angel Tsankov :
> How can I set/change the password for some user
> noninteractively, e.g. by reading it from a file in plain text?
man chpasswd
Good luck
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Bicho[DBZ]
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 12:16 pm Post subject: Re: redirectin input for passwd? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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well, also you can do:
echo "password" | passwd --stdin someuser
should work, also you can do some scripting to do more than one.
Enjoy
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Angel Tsankov
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 12:49 pm Post subject: Re: redirectin input for passwd? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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>> How can I set/change the password for some user
>> noninteractively, e.g. by reading it from a file in plain text?
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> man chpasswd
I could not figure out how to change the password of a user that is not the currently logged in one with chpasswd. |
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Michael Heiming
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 12:49 pm Post subject: Re: redirectin input for passwd? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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In comp.os.linux.misc Angel Tsankov :
>>> How can I set/change the password for some user
>>> noninteractively, e.g. by reading it from a file in plain text?
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>> man chpasswd
> I could not figure out how to change the password of a user
> that is not the currently logged in one with chpasswd.
It shouldn't matter if the user is logged in or not. Anyway,
please provide *data*. What you did, exact commands and what
error message (preferable via cut&paste) you get.
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Angel Tsankov
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 10:22 pm Post subject: Re: redirectin input for passwd? [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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> well, also you can do:
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> echo "password" | passwd --stdin someuser
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> should work, also you can do some scripting to do more than one.
I get "invalid option -- -" |
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