On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 05:14:51PM +0000, Paul Branston wrote: > On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 05:48:15PM +0100, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote: > >> Have you looked at man usermod? -p flag in particular. > > > > Shame on me, indeed. It has been a game: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > PASSWORD=$(echo "my_new_password" | encrypt -b 6) > > usermod -p $PASSWORD root > > > > A little more generic in case there is no usermod -p > > PASSWORD=$(echo "my_new_password" | encrypt -b 6) > perl -p -i.bk -e 's/^root:.*?:/root:$PASSWORD:/' /etc/shadow
Breaks on AIX :-). Breaks with NIS and LDAP as well :-). I've always had the pipe dream of there being a chpasswd(8) on *BSD like there is on current AIX and Linux distros. But usually there isn't that much headache using something like usermod. > -- Chris Dukes
