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Date:      Fri, 02 Nov 2001 09:36:22 +1100
From:      BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Changing a user password non-interactively
Message-ID:  <3e4c9c3e90fd.3e90fd3e4c9c@mbox.com.au>

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Hi again everyone,

Does anyone know of a way to change a user password non-interactively 
(as root of course!)?

I am writing my own user management scripts and need someway of passing 
a shell variable to a program which will change a user password. For 
example I need:

passwd $USER $NEWPASSWORD $PASSWORD_CONFIRMATION

to change $USER's password without prompting me at all but simply 
changing the user password or returning an error message...


Warm Regards.... and many thanks in advance....

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