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Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 14:40:55 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: Changing a user password non-interactively
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On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, BSD Freak wrote:

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

Check out 'pw'. Example:

echo "Password" | pw user mod -h 0 username


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