Resetting user password in cron

[Glen Barber]

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Jos Chrispijn<jos at webrz.net> wrote:
> Can someone tell me how I can reset a user's password best in a cron job?
> If I do a password change from the prompt, I now have to re-enter the
> password, which I would not like to do in a cron job. Thanks/
>

Hi, Jos

You can use chpass(1) in root's crontab:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chpass&sektion=1

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Glen Barber