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From: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com>
To: Tony <tony@idk.com>
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Subject: Re: Change user password.
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On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:15:34PM -0700, Tony wrote:
> Is there a C function that will change a user's password?

No.

Check out pw(8).

You could easily popen() pw -h 0 ...

-danny

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