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From: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
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Subject: Re: Changing Passwords From A Batch File
Message-ID: <18730@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 14 Nov 90 05:15:13 GMT
References: <1990Nov12.035942.14096@sjuphil.uucp>
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In article <1990Nov12.035942.14096@sjuphil.uucp> brunette@sjuphil.uucp (Glenn M. Brunette) writes:
>Ideally we would want something like this:
>
>   #changepw "oldpasswd" "newpasswd"
>
>that would go through all of the desired accounts and change the passwords
>to those directed.

Ideally you would want to read the user name, old password and
new password from a data file.  The reason is that ps would
be able to see the passwords as they were changed.
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