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From: Samara McCord <mccord@zytek.com>
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To: bill@duey.interlinks.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Change Password Script
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Check out:

	ftp://zy.zcc.net/pub/FreeBSD/chpass.tgz

This is an HTML/Tcl/C package for changing passwords we use here.
You only need the "changepass.c" which compiles to a program that
does exactly what you indicated, interacting with the "passwd"
program.  (But you also need to supply the old password on the
command line).

Sam

>From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec  6 17:48:22 1997
>Date: Sat, 6 Dec 1997 20:11:25 +0000 (GMT)
>From: Bill Sandiford <bill@duey.interlinks.net>
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>Subject: Change Password Script
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>I need some help
>
>I need to write a script that will change a users script from the command
>line.  The format would be something like :
>
>change_pass username newpassword
>
>
>Problem is that I can't find a way to pass the variables to passwd and
>have them go in correctly.  Someone suggested before that I use pw to feed
>in the password, but I can't figure that out either.  I was also told that
>writing a script to do this could be vulnerable because someone could type
>ps and read the password.  This doesn't matter to me, as my box is secure
>and noone can get access to a shell.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Bill Sandiford
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