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From: bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: passwd
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Date: 25 Sep 90 18:40:31 GMT
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In article <24596@adm.BRL.MIL> ITMS400@indycms.iupui.edu ( Manjit Trehan) writes:
>
>Is there any way to have the adduser program set passwords from a
>file.  It seems to not use stdin to read the password, rather,
>opens the tty device to read the password (??).

On most systems you'd use makekey(3).

				--Blair
				  "Most."