[Gllug] non-interactive passwd

[Murray Peterson]

Hi All,

I was wondering if there is any appropriate way of setting a password for
a user account without running passwd interactively?

essentially I am trying to automagically create accounts on a number
boxen by script and need to do something like this: (and nis, ldap etc is
unfortunately not an option...)

passwd $USER $PASSWORD or passwd $USER << echo $PASSWORD

I am trying to do this on solaris and aix, but I would imagine that
linux would have much the same reaction :)

Anyway, any ideas or pointers to friendly solaris & aix lists would be
much appreciated!

Regards

Murray




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