Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 02:54:47 -0600 From: Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com> To: "rick - SomersNet, Inc." <rick@123HostIt.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: changing ALL passwords Message-ID: <20000222085447.8332.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> In-Reply-To: <38A51F4A.3936BF3C@123HostIt.com> References: <38A51F4A.3936BF3C@123HostIt.com>
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rick - SomersNet, Inc. wrote:
> Hello..
>
> I am trying to change all passwords. I have a flat text DB with all
> usernames and new passwords. However using 'passwd' requires a human to
> type the new password twice for it to be entered. But I need to do it
> from perl.
>
> so my question.. is there any passwd scripts that allow a single command
> line to change the password? such as 'passwd USER NEWPASS'?
>
$::PW='/usr/sbin/pw';
open(PW,"| $::PW usermod $userName -h 0");
print PW "$password\n";
close(PW) or die("An error occured while trying to ".
"change the password for user $userName!");
Gerd
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