Try using Expect. I use version 5.18 because of some problems
I experience with the new versions of it (5.24 and the version included
with Redhat 5) and use Tcl 7.4 for this old version of Expect.
Look at the example file 'autopasswd' and start from there.
If you're using PAM authentication, you might want to comment out
this lines:
password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
password required /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so use_authtok nullok
as this checks if your password is good.
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benchdelosangelesjr.
On Sat, 4 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am tring to write a perl script that will add a user and set up their
> password. I have no problem adding the user, using a system call to the
> useradd command. I am tring to set the password like this:
>
> open(PASSWD, "| passwd " . $username);
> print PASSWD $password . "\n";
> print PASSWD $password . "\n";
> close(PASSWD);
>
> and is not working. it gives me a conversation error. Has anyone
> had success doing this? or know what else I need to put in there? I have
> done the same type thing with other commands, like htpasswd, and they
> worked fine.
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan Opfer
>
>
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