[Gllug] non-interactive passwd

[Matthew King]

> Hi,
>
>> 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.
>
> It is a pity they are not as forward-thinking as GNU people.
> I'd be more inclined to use something like expect...
>
> Murray

You could use expect, and a bit of tinkering with some scripting may make
it work.
Personally I'd just type 'echo username:password|chpasswd' and get it over
with.
Matthew

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