[Gllug] non-interactive passwd

[John Edwards]

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 01:09:18PM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Murray Peterson writes:
> 
> >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 :)
> 
> Actually no. Under Linux, it's easy because passwd accepts a --stdin
> option to accept piped input from elsewhere:
> 
> 	echo $password | passwd --stdin $user
> 
> Solaris and AIX aren't so accomodating. You might want to try building
> the Linux passwd on ther other OSen, and see if you can get it to work
> that way.
> 
> Tet

Hi
RedHat's passwd program can do stdin, but not the one in Debian (as 
of 3.0) or SuSE (as of 7.1).


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