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From: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com>
To: Sean Ellis <sellis@intergate.ca>
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Subject: Re: pw -h
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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

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