Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:01:21 -0700 From: dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org> To: Mike <mike@mikesweb.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pw & passwords Message-ID: <20000918000121.B30479@dell.dannyland.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000918011343.0f70d1a8@mail.mikesweb.com>; from mike@mikesweb.com on Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:17:15AM -0400 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000918011343.0f70d1a8@mail.mikesweb.com>
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On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 01:17:15AM -0400, Mike wrote: > I am working on a perl program to automate setting users up on my box, and > I am wanting to user pw in a system call, and am wondering how I can give > it a password directly without it needing to prompt me for it. The closest > I can come, is the "-h fd" flag, but I'm not overly sure how to pull that > one off.. I have a script that does what you're looking to do. You may find it useful to borrow from, possibly even adapt, though I see your pipe to pw question is a'ready answered: (Daemonnews appears to be down so I ref my site. Google! ;) Code: http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/stuff/enteruser/enteruser Article: http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/stuff/enteruser/ -danny -- dannyman - http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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