Thus spake Andy Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I've been working on some Linux/Sendmail scripts to manipulate accounts
> from a Windows NT RSH session, and have a few questions for anyone
> willing to help.
>
> 1. We're shadowing passwords (of course), which forces us to go through
> the passwd utility to setup and/or change the password on an account.
> Is there a way to use the passwd utility from within a script? Or is
> there an alternative, non-interactive, PAM compliant, way to setup/alter
> passwords, via bash (or perl) scripting, that might be a better
> solution? If I can't find another way I'm leaning towards unencrypted
> passwords in the passwd file. Then it would be stupid simple to use
> sed, but I'm very uncomfortable with the idea.
Try the chpasswd command, it takes a file of user names and new
passwords. These can be either encrypted or plaintext.
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