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Subject: Re: OT: Setting password from command line
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Ian Chilton <ian@ichilton.co.uk>
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On Sun, 2001-12-23 at 18:33, Ian Chilton wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Sorry for another off-topic post.
> 
> I am creating a user on the command line with:
> 
> pw useradd myusername -g mygroup -s /sbin/nologin -c description
> 
> I now need a way of setting the password on this account, but it must
> be none-interactive as I want to call it from a Perl script.

unless (open(PW, "| /usr/sbin/pw usermod $user -h 0")) {
    carp "Unable to open a pipe to /usr/sbin/pw.";
    exit 3;
}

print PW $newPass, "\n";

unless (close PW) {
    carp "/usr/sbin/pw exited on $?: $!";
    exit 3;
}

Where $user is the username and $newPass is the user's new password.

Joe

> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ian
> 
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