Re: Change password from shellscript

[Bill Goudie <bgoudie@mail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:04:48PM +0100, Peter wrote:
> I want to make a shellscript with the ability to change a
> userspassword. I can't get it to work properly because when i say
> passwd user i will have to enter the password is there a way or a
> switch todo this in a style like passwd user password

Yeah, take a look at "autopasswd" in the examples provided by the expect
package.

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