[Gllug] non-interactive passwd

Mike Brodbelt mike at coruscant.demon.co.uk
Thu May 8 23:01:35 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 22:57, Ian Northeast wrote:

> In reply to another suggestion, I would think that trying to port the
> Linux passwd command to Solaris and especially AIX would be rather
> problematic, as the exact format of the user database will vary. Don't
> try this on a system which is required to work!

I don;t know about AIX, but I'd have though porting it to Solaris
shouldn't be that hard, as both Solaris and most Linux distros use pam,
and the code can be written to the pam interface.

Mike.



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