Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 00:59:27 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Folkinshteyn <dfolkins@net72-105.student.yale.edu> To: Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: noninteractive password change Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909220055260.7885-100000@net72-105.student.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SC5.4.10.9909221642220.13027-100000@kiwi.logisticsoftware.co.nz>
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this is a quote from 'man 8 pw', for the option 'pw usermod -h fd': This option provides a special interface by which interactive scripts can set an account password using pw. note _interactive_. i need it to be automatic, with absolutely no user input? or am i just not getting something here? thanks. -df. On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Daniel Folkinshteyn wrote: > > > hey. > > i want to change the password of a user noninteractively through a script > > run by crontab at regular intervals. > > is that possible? what program(s) would i use for that? > > pw(8) is what you want. > > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > "I don't want to achive immortality through my works.. > I want to achieve it through not dying" - Woody Allen > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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