On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:31:45PM -0500, Tom White wrote: > 1 - the debian passwd utility does not have the --stdin option, so I'm not > quite sure how to set it up
use something like (sleep 1; echo $oldpasswd; sleep 1; echo $newpasswd; sleep 1; echo $newpasswd) | passwd $user > 2 - I wouldn't want to have it do it as root - would be more > comfortable with a wrapper program of some kind that did some sanity > checks and then changed uid's to the user in question, and then > changed the password. sudo will work. /etc/sudoers may look like this Cmnd_Alias ADDUSER=/usr/sbin/adduser www-data ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ADDUSER -- Rene Cunningham DCLabs Pty Ltd http://www.dclabs.com.au
