Re: Using passwd in a script

From: Gashaw Mengistu (gmengistu@HOWARD.EDU)
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 12:36:03 EDT

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You can do the following:

echo "newpassword" | passwd --stdin username

HTH

On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Oscar Penaloza wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I'm looking for a basic shell script to change password in background to
> several AIX, without keyboard input. Anyone have any ideas?!?!?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Oscar Peñaloza
> Unix Systems Administrator
> openaloz@co.ibm.com
>

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Gashaw Mengistu
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