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From: Lucas Bergman <lucas@slb.to>
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Subject: Re: ADDUSER - non-intercative
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> This is surely a very dumb one but never mind...I am sure dumb in
> this.

Not really.  The man page pw(8) mentions it, but it mumbles a lot
about file descriptors; I can see how it would be tough for a newbie
to catch.

> I am looking for command line options to pw which will accept also a
> password.  I have searched the archives but still don't find it.

You want the -h option:

  # echo 'newpassword' | pw usermod myname -h 0

Lucas

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