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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: passwd
Message-ID: <8833:Sep2520:50:2490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 25 Sep 90 20:50:24 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's usually a bad idea to store plaintext passwords.

> It seems to not use stdin to read the password, rather,
> opens the tty device to read the password (??).

Under BSD systems, the general solution to this problem is to run ``pty
adduser'' with the input and output redirected whatever way you want.
pty 3.001 and its first patch are available from me or via anonymous ftp
to 128.122.128.22; they'll appear on c.s.unix as soon as Rich gets
enough hate mail :-).

---Dan