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Date:      Sat, 24 Apr 1999 16:08:37 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To:        Jeff Miller <millert@direct.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Im having some problems with freebsd?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990424160659.2095S-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <37220AC5.8D0F7FD1@direct.ca>

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On Sat, 24 Apr 1999, Jeff Miller wrote:

> 
>    Hello, I used to have freebsd 2.2.6 working perfectly fine. Then I
> bought a new server with a
> 13gb harddrive. I was forced to upgrade to freebsd 3.1 to support the
> harddrive. Then other problems occured. The adduser program now will not
> allow command line interface for the passwords. So I checked out the PW
> program it require's I have an interactive pipe from a perl
> script or shell script. I dont know how to program a interactive pipe so
> I need help with that. Also on freebsd 2.2.6 I was able to get the qmail
> program to work with my usernames. But that to doesn't work with pop
> accounts. Please help me.

echo USER'S PASSWORD HERE | pw YOUR ARGUMENTS

note, this is unsafe, any user on the system that runs:

"ps -ax"

at the right time will see your user's password.

be advised, and pick up a book on perl or shell programming.

-Alfred




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