Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 19:48:11 -0800 (PST) From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> To: Bart Smit <bit@signature.nl> Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG, Snob Art Genre <ben@narcissus.ml.org> Subject: Re: changing password... Message-ID: <XFMail.970215200110.Shimon@i-Connect.Net> In-Reply-To: <1.5.4.16.19970215233120.09df75f2@pollux.or.signature.nl>
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Hi Bart Smit; On 15-Feb-97 you wrote: > At 02:57 PM 2/15/97 -0800, Snob Art Genre wrote: > >On Sat, 15 Feb 1997, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> Why don't we have an option for /usr/bin/passwd to input a precoded > >> password ? > >Well, root can already do it with vipw, and why would anyone else need to? > > Example: to change my my password securely when I had to log in from > another location. SSH
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