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From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To: Bart Smit <bit@signature.nl>
Subject: Re: changing password...
Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
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Hi Bart Smit;  On 15-Feb-97 you wrote: 
> At 02:57 PM 2/15/97 -0800, Snob Art Genre wrote:
> >On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >> Why don't we have an option for /usr/bin/passwd to input a precoded
> >> password ?
> >Well, root can already do it with vipw, and why would anyone else need
to?
> 
> Example: to change my my password securely when I had to log in from
> another location.

SSH