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From: cliffs@playroom.Central.Sun.COM (Clifford C. Skolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: passwd
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Date: 1 Oct 90 14:49:44 GMT
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In article <24596@adm.BRL.MIL> ITMS400@indycms.iupui.edu ( Manjit Trehan) writes:
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>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 (??).


Ok, we can fool the getpass(3) routine into reading standard input, unless you
are on a System V machine which you can hope the program will handle intself
(I doubt it).  Write a small wrapper C program that will issue a TIOCNOTTY
ioctl(2) on standard input.  This way when getpass(3) will be unable
to open /dev/tty and will punt to standard input.
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   Cliff Skolnick - Technical Consultant                  cliffs@east.sun.com
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