non-interactive password

[Louis LeBlanc]

On 04/24/04 06:52 PM, Mikko Työläjärvi sat at the `puter and typed:
> On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> 
> > Hey everyone.  I'm trying to recreate a password script that sets
> > passwords (as root on the local system only).  The trick is that it
> > must change the password non-interactively.  I had this working, but
> > when the system was trashed, the script was lost.
> >
> > Can someone refresh my memory on the command format?
> 
>   echo "$password" | pw usermod "$user" -h0
> 
> Might do the trick.

'fraid not.  It fails quietly, but it fails.

Thanks anyway.

Lou
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