Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:42:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: notme <notme@lvdi.net> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: pw useradd and pw.conf Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904221140450.7869-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <371E8846.5C2DC8B3@lvdi.net>
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On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, notme wrote:
> When I read the man pages for pw.conf, I ran into an option
> that allows me to set a specific password to the user via filehandle.
> Does anyone have any idea on how to do that?
Usually it uses standard input, but you can specify a different filehandle
number if, say, you're fork()-n-exec()-ing pw and clear the close-on-exec
flag for a filehandle, then pass that filehandle to pw.
> If not, is there any other way of setting password of an account
> when creating it with a shell script using pw? (Or actually, any
> other way as long as it is not manually typing in "passwd"... :)
Provide it on standard input, that's the default.
pw useradd {options} < `echo ${PASSWD}`
Doug White
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