Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 15:49:42 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Alicia Castro Parra <acastro@werken.ufro.cl>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password change with a command line Message-ID: <19980826154942.A6695@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980826150304.0083fe30@werken.ufro.cl>; from "Alicia Castro Parra" on Wed Aug 26 15:03:04 GMT 1998 References: <3.0.5.32.19980826150304.0083fe30@werken.ufro.cl>
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In the last episode (Aug 26), Alicia Castro Parra said: > I want to know if there is a way to change passwords using a command > line (like passwd user newpass). I need to change a great number of > passwords and I don't want to type them every time. I found something > about a function named crypt, but I don't know how to use it echo "newpass" | pw usermod bob -h 0 The password is read via stdin so that you don't see the password on the "pw" commandline. For more deatils, man pw. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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