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From: weimer@garden.kodak.COM (Gary Weimer (588-0953))
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Password Pipe
Message-ID: <1991Mar26.203948.12567@ssd.kodak.com>
Date: 26 Mar 91 20:39:48 GMT
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In article <13766@helios.TAMU.EDU>, packman@tamuts.tamu.edu (Wally
Strzelec) writes:
|> Howdy.... I am writing a short program that will allow me to change the
|> password on a remote machine.  To do this I am trying to use popen and
|> feed it the "/etc/passwd" command on the remote machine. The problem
|> is that it seems that the passwd command doesn't accept anything that
|> I send down the pipe.  Can someone please tell me where I am messing
|> up.  The following is my test:
[code deleted]

This may depend on your system. I've had problems trying to redirect the
input of the passwd command in SunOS. If I remember correctly, it was
trying to get its input directly from /dev/tty.

weimer@ssd.kodak.com ( Gary Weimer )