Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 02:03:49 -0600 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> To: Noah Davidson <Noah@oopz.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Security List (E-mail 2)" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: password changes Message-ID: <20011211020349.T32521@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <A6A82340FB3DB643A0678E3B10CD5AC1062F55@xela.oopz.com>; from Noah@oopz.com on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:41:02PM -0800 References: <A6A82340FB3DB643A0678E3B10CD5AC1062F55@xela.oopz.com>
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On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:41:02PM -0800, Noah Davidson wrote:
> How can I change the password of a user and not be prompted to verify
> it. We are changing our mail server to sendmail. I have all of the
> passwords in plain text. I want to write a script that changes all 5000
> or so passwords. How can I do this? I would like to call passwd or
> some command from a perl script to do this. Any Ideas would be very
> helpful.
man 8 pw, specifically ''-h''.
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