I want to use a script for changing automatically a Unix account password. I read a message on this forum the way under : #!/usr/local/bin/expect -- # wrapper to make passwd(1) be non-interactive # username is passed as 1st arg, passwd as 2nd # Executable only by root set password [lindex $argv 1] spawn /usr/bin/passwd [lindex $argv 0] expect "password:" send "$password\r" expect "password:" send "$password\r" expect eof But when I run it, it still prompted the line "Retype new Unix password". How can I run it without the above line? Pls. recommend me Thank you so much Thang

I don't want to elaborate on the obvious, but did you call it with two arguments: expectscript unixuser newpass while logged in as root? I'm running it on a Solaris 7 box and I'm not having a problem. Perhaps there's a bug with the expect that runs on AIX or HP-UX? The expect version I'm using is 5.28.1

Thank for responsing the message, my expect version is 5.43, I tested it on Linux AS 4. But If still be that above script, but I add two line as under : #!/usr/local/bin/expect -- # wrapper to make passwd(1) be non-interactive # username is passed as 1st arg, passwd as 2nd # Executable only by root set password [lindex $argv 1] spawn /usr/bin/passwd [lindex $argv 0] # this is two lines that I added expect "password:" send "$password\r" # expect "password:" send "$password\r" expect "password:" send "$password\r" expect eof and then I rerun it, It was OK I did not really understand this. Cheers Thang

i am looking for some thing about the same i am looking for something were i can fire off a script with by a user like "chagepass -p xxxx" and it changes the pass word with out them using the passwd command thanks