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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Password Pipe
Message-ID: <15622@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 29 Mar 91 09:44:44 GMT
References: <13766@helios.TAMU.EDU>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <13766@helios.TAMU.EDU> packman@tamuts.tamu.edu (Wally Strzelec) writes:
>... 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.

In assuming that the "passwd" utility reads the password from its
standard input.  (Hint: /dev/tty.)