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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Changing passwords in Scripts
Keywords: Passowrds
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.201534.28396@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 19 Feb 91 20:15:34 GMT
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In article <39@cheops.UUCP>, logier@cheops.UUCP (Rob Logie) writes:
|> 		RE:  Changing passwords from within a shell/c program

  Get Dan Bernstein's "pty" package (available from the comp.sources.unix
archive in volume 23).  Then, you can run "pty passwd" instead of just
"passwd" and pipe the username and password into it.

  I suspect you can also do this with Don Libes' "expect" program (available
in /pub/expect.shar.Z on uunet.uu.net, and in other locations as well).

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