From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 21 22: 0: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from net72-105.student.yale.edu (net72-105.student.yale.edu [130.132.72.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6528714D5E for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:00:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfolkins@net72-105.student.yale.edu) Received: from localhost (dfolkins@localhost) by net72-105.student.yale.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA07997; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:59:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dfolkins@net72-105.student.yale.edu) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:59:27 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Folkinshteyn To: Jonathan Chen Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: noninteractive password change In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG this is a quote from 'man 8 pw', for the option 'pw usermod -h fd': This option provides a special interface by which interactive scripts can set an account password using pw. note _interactive_. i need it to be automatic, with absolutely no user input? or am i just not getting something here? thanks. -df. On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Daniel Folkinshteyn wrote: > > > hey. > > i want to change the password of a user noninteractively through a script > > run by crontab at regular intervals. > > is that possible? what program(s) would i use for that? > > pw(8) is what you want. > > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > "I don't want to achive immortality through my works.. > I want to achieve it through not dying" - Woody Allen > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message