From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 10 23:44:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A32FB37B416 for ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:44:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 3B7D081E08; Tue, 11 Dec 2001 01:44:40 -0600 (CST) Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 01:44:40 -0600 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Noah Davidson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: password changes Message-ID: <20011211014440.A92148@elvis.mu.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from Noah@oopz.com on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:41:02PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Noah Davidson [011211 01:41] wrote: > How can I change the password of a user and not be prompted to verify > it. We are changing our mail server to sendmail. I have all of the > passwords in plain text. I want to write a script that changes all 5000 > or so passwords. How can I do this? I would like to call passwd or > some command from a perl script to do this. Any Ideas would be very > helpful. man pw please don't ask such questions on -security, and please don't double post to it. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message