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At 01:28 AM 2/16/97 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>>Hmm, I thought that's what we use chpass for ... :-)
>>It is willing to take a command-line encrypted password for
>>the argument.  I'm using it on a www password change routine.
>
>Yes, but only root can use the -p option on chpass, right ?

Hmm, point taken.  I didn't look closely enough at the man page;
I merely used it for the application I needed.  It was actually
a blessing for me - previously, I was using a hacked-up version
of "passwd".  Thank goodness for having source code :-).