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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2001 02:03:49 -0600
From:      Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org>
To:        Noah Davidson <Noah@oopz.com>
Cc:        "FreeBSD Security List (E-mail 2)" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: password changes
Message-ID:  <20011211020349.T32521@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <A6A82340FB3DB643A0678E3B10CD5AC1062F55@xela.oopz.com>; from Noah@oopz.com on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:41:02PM -0800
References:  <A6A82340FB3DB643A0678E3B10CD5AC1062F55@xela.oopz.com>

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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:41:02PM -0800, Noah Davidson wrote:
> How can I change the password of a user and not be prompted to verify
> it.  We are changing our mail server to sendmail.  I have all of the
> passwords in plain text.  I want to write a script that changes all 5000
> or so passwords.  How can I do this?  I would like to call passwd or
> some command from a perl script to do this.  Any Ideas would be very
> helpful.

man 8 pw, specifically ''-h''.

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