RE: Web based password changer

["Michael Sharman" <michael.sharman@dytech.com.au>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rene Cunningham [mailto:rene@dclabs.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 23 January 2004 4:09 PM
> To: Tom White
> Cc: debian-security@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Web based password changer
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 10:31:45PM -0500, Tom White wrote:
> >  1 - the debian passwd utility does not have the --stdin 
> option, so I'm not quite sure how to set it up
> 
> use something like
> 
> (sleep 1; echo $oldpasswd; sleep 1; echo $newpasswd; sleep 1; 
> echo $newpasswd) | passwd $user
> 

how about:

echo $user:$newpasswd | chpasswd