Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 09:22:08 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Mike Fern <bloodyveins@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing user password from command line Message-ID: <20060802235208.GS48182@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <58ebaa710608020248r1cfb7915t4caa0f6fcdbecb84@mail.gmail.com> References: <58ebaa710608020248r1cfb7915t4caa0f6fcdbecb84@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday, 2 August 2006 at 16:48:48 +0700, Mike Fern wrote:
> Dear all,
> Does anybody know a program which is able to change user password from
> command line?
Of course. I thought it was the only way.
$ man -k password
passwd(1), yppasswd(1) - modify a user's password
=46rom that man page:
HISTORY
A passwd command appeared in Version 6 AT&T UNIX.
By comparison, pw(8) is a newcomer. In fact, the passwd command was
in the Third Edition of Research UNIX, back in 1973.
Greg
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