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From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To: Mike Fern <bloodyveins@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Changing user password from command line
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On Wednesday,  2 August 2006 at 16:48:48 +0700, Mike Fern wrote:
> Dear all,
> Does anybody know a program which is able to change user password from
> command line?

Of course.  I thought it was the only way.

   $ man -k password
   passwd(1), yppasswd(1)   - modify a user's password

=46rom that man page:

   HISTORY
        A passwd command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.

By comparison, pw(8) is a newcomer.  In fact, the passwd command was
in the Third Edition of Research UNIX, back in 1973.

Greg
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