Re: Similar question was: Change password from shellscript

2003-12-17 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Nunya wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:48:10PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: We'll leave it as an exercise for the students to discover why xsane only works well under su. Neither my Epson 1650U nor my HP PSC 750 requires root under xsane. IJW. My Epson 1250 doesn't either on Sarge, but on

Similar question was: Change password from shellscript

2003-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Peter wrote: Howdie, I want to make a shellscript with the ability to change a userspassword. I can't get it to work properly because when i say passwd user i will have to enter the password is there a way or a switch todo this in a style like passwd user password Thankz, Peter I want to make a

Re: Similar question was: Change password from shellscript

2003-12-16 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Hugo Vanwoerkom said on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:34:24AM -0600: I want to make a script (which I am at present unable to do) that does this: su give the password from the script export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11 xsane exit from script Note: su insists on running from a

Re: Similar question was: Change password from shellscript

2003-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom said on Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 08:34:24AM -0600: I want to make a script (which I am at present unable to do) that does this: su give the password from the script export PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/bin/X11 xsane exit from script Note: su insists on

Re: Similar question was: Change password from shellscript

2003-12-16 Thread Nunya
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:48:10PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: We'll leave it as an exercise for the students to discover why xsane only works well under su. Neither my Epson 1650U nor my HP PSC 750 requires root under xsane. IJW. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a