On Fri, 21 May 2004, A.J. Venter wrote:
> Hi, > > I am working on a project that needs among other things to create Linux > users, and then set a password for them. > > One way to do this is to use a program that can read the password from > stdin and just wrap around it, for example > echo "testusers:test" | chpasswd will change testuser's password to test > on Slackware. > Likewize redhat likes have a version of passwd that takes a --stdin > option, so you can do > echo "test" | passwd --stdin testuser > Both these can only be run by root of course. > > The problem is no system seems to support both, and I need maximum > distribution indepedance. Has anybody else done a frontend for user > management or similiar system ? Can anyone tell me how to set a user's > password in a distribution independant way ? libc unit. putpwent() and friends. in the FPC sources, see packages/base/libc/pwdh.inc for all functions. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
