On Monday 15 Dec 2003 7:04 pm, Peter wrote: > Howdie, > > I want to make a shellscript with the ability to change a > userspassword. I can't get it to work properly because when i say > passwd user i will have to enter the password is there a way or a > switch todo this in a style like passwd user password
My version of passwd has a --stdin switch which'll read the password from STDIN, i.e. echo $password | passwd --stdin $username If your's doesn't you may want to take a look at expect. James > > Thankz, > Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]