Similar question was: Change password from shellscript

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Peter wrote:
> Howdie,
>
> 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
>
> Thankz,
> Peter

I want to make a script (which I am at present unable to do) that does this:

su
<give the password from the script>
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11
xsane
exit from script

Note: su insists on running from a terminal window.

How do you do that?

Thanks!

Hugo.

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