From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 30 18:16:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D44171065672 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:16:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mlmichael70@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ww0-f50.google.com (mail-ww0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67C958FC0C for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:16:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwi36 with SMTP id 36so7200664wwi.31 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:15:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Y1BlDaQVhyK++k6FZORjQAQdF/Az4IBeIdySrCt1DJ4=; b=h3RbzqxxEAGret4uxdaAi1gxOulfGMcW/JT7kvPw/A/sbbiNBrdwYhn7LTUd/fccrP 7SwALFIRIOeM2AZtpC9kjUOkyJyfMLn8RROIE7UqFpWcTLr9ZYCUwsrLdQl0qwl/soGn Pa5mgfu776OPXNRAKT3k+Y2xmyN2W9E2QPDTU= Received: by 10.227.6.199 with SMTP id a7mr1558501wba.74.1314728159269; Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:15:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from prime.nonspace (92.40.253.220.threembb.co.uk [92.40.253.220]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fd4sm4828881wbb.64.2011.08.30.11.15.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:15:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E5D28E0.5050700@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:16:00 +0100 From: Michael User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:6.0) Gecko/20110829 Thunderbird/6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: random generated password X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:16:00 -0000 Hello, When adding a new user it is possible to assign a random generated password. But is it possible to assign a random password for already existing users? Preferably in a non-interactive and scriptable way. Is it possible with the base system tools? Michael