Re: Change root password from shell-script

[Brynet]

Paul Branston wrote:
> A little more generic in case there is no usermod -p
> 
> PASSWORD=$(echo "my_new_password" | encrypt -b 6)
> perl -p -i.bk -e  's/^root:.*?:/root:$PASSWORD:/' /etc/shadow

Wow,

Question: are you even using OpenBSD?

-Bryan.