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From: bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: passwd
Summary: I flame myself...
Message-ID: <195@inews.intel.com>
Date: 26 Sep 90 16:02:04 GMT
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In article <186@inews.intel.com> bhoughto@cmdnfs.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>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).

Oops.  makekey(8).  crypt(3).

				--Blair
				  "Mars needs women.
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