Re: Automatic password changing
Brian May <bam@debian.org> wrote:
>>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Haynes <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> writes:
> Tim> perl -npi.bak -e 's/^root:[^:]*:/root:pants/o'
> Tim> /etc/shadow
> Just a nitpick for the very security paranoid (ie myself!):
> The encrypted password will show up in the ps listing...
> Out of curiosity: Is there anyway to avoid this?
Put the substitution command in a here document.
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