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Date:      Fri, 28 Nov 1997 21:13:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Bill Sandiford <bill@duey.interlinks.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Changing password with shell scripts
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971128211259.22067J-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971128103724.20452A-100000@duey.interlinks.net>

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On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Bill Sandiford wrote:

> Hello :
> 
> I need some help.  I want to write a some sort of script that would allow
> me to change a users password in one command from the command line
> 
> The command line would be something like this
> 
> change_password username oldpassword newpassword

This is evil.  I can do a `ps' and swipe your passwords while you're
changing them.  See the `pw' command, you can feed it encrypted passwords.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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