Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 19:49:35 -0700 From: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com> To: Sean Ellis <sellis@intergate.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pw -h Message-ID: <20010914194935.F11099@toldme.com> In-Reply-To: <20010914165301.A3127@telus.net>; from sellis@intergate.ca on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 04:53:01PM -0700 References: <20010914165301.A3127@telus.net>
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On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 04:53:01PM -0700, Sean Ellis wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking to give a list of users passwords from a second list via > a shell script, with no success. I thought this would work, > > #!/usr/local/bin/bash > > exec 6<&0 > exec < pasz > > for i in `cat users` > do > cat | pw usermod -n $i -h 0 > done > > but this gives: > > pw: empty password read on file descriptor 0 What are you trying to set the passwords to? You want like: echo "foo" | pw usermod -n $i -h 0 Or: cat `$i.passwd` | pw usermod -n $i -h 0 -danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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