Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 15:59:00 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: non-interactive password Message-ID: <40915E84.9040106@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20040429193544.GH419@keyslapper.org> References: <20040424232033.GA53918@keyslapper.org> <20040424184957.I57098@sotec.home> <20040429193544.GH419@keyslapper.org>
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Louis LeBlanc wrote: > On 04/24/04 06:52 PM, Mikko Työläjärvi sat at the `puter and typed: > >>On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Louis LeBlanc wrote: >> >>>Hey everyone. I'm trying to recreate a password script that sets >>>passwords (as root on the local system only). The trick is that it >>>must change the password non-interactively. I had this working, but >>>when the system was trashed, the script was lost. >>> >>>Can someone refresh my memory on the command format? >> >> echo "$password" | pw usermod "$user" -h0 >> >>Might do the trick. > > 'fraid not. It fails quietly, but it fails. > > Thanks anyway. The man page for pw says that pw needs a file descriptor to set the password via -h I'm not 100% sure, but I seem to remember that most shells provide a sort of "heredoc" support for this. Such that: pw usermod "$user" -h <<<END newpassword newpassword END would work. Don't quote me on this. I'm sure of the basic approach, but I'm not sure of the exact syntax used. I just had a thought, though - the version of the adduser script in FreeBSD 5 is written in sh instead of perl (4.x is in perl) so you should be able to check that code for a workable syntax. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com
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