[fpc-pascal]How to change a users password on Linux
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 ? TIA A.J. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
[fpc-pascal]RE: How to change a users password on Linux
Erm, obviously I need a way to do that in pascal, I think that got left out of the message A.J. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Re: [fpc-pascal]How to change a users password on Linux
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
