On Monday, Dec 4, 1995, at 15:32 US/Pacific, rhlinux wrote: [..]
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but this takes the password from the user, i have also tried a lot of attributes to passwd command but nothing worked
the obvious first part of the problem is are you running the command as 'root'? Since only root can do the change of the passwd file(s).
I have not run into Andrew Gaffney's problem, since if this is an application to be run at the command line, then one is STILL attached to the tty/pty. If this is not going to be an interactive command, then we have way deeper issues to deal with.
Depending on which system you are on, you may want to look at useradd cf man useradd for creating a user.
But back to your core problem, namely that the passwd command on many systems IS interactive and as such you can not do 'interactions' with it with the system command. What you will need to do is the bi-directional pipe solution: cf: <http://www.wetware.com/drieux/PR/blog2/Code/200311.html#id3152776334>
ciao drieux
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