To preface this, let me say that I am a system administrator responsible for creating and modifying User accounts on a Unix system.
Is it possible to make a Perl script to change passwords using the passwd command without having to get and answer those prompts??? I have tried opening a process filehandle (as documented on Pg 201-202 in "Learning Perl 3rd edition') like so: my $user="dingbat"; open PWD,"|passwd $user"; also open PWD,"passwd $user|"; also open PWD,"|passwd $user|"; and then do a Print PWD "password"; Print PWD "password"; which is supposed to answer the prompts. None of them seems to work. Am I doing something wrong? I think you can do something like this in expect, but we are not allowed to install that. Will Perl do the above or not? Any help would be appreciated. . -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
