Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tim> perl -npi.bak -e 's/^root:[^:]*:/root:pants/o' > Tim> /etc/shadow > Just a nitpick for the very security paranoid (ie myself!): > The encrypted password will show up in the ps listing... > Out of curiosity: Is there anyway to avoid this? Put the substitution command in a here document. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt