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Password change from command line
Name: Yogesh Date: March 22, 2001 at 19:14:17 Pacific
Comment:
Hello All
I have requirement to change the password of unix users from commandline. Since passwd command does not support commandline. Anyone please help me out. Thanks a lot in advance.
Name: ciwonk Date: March 26, 2001 at 22:21:18 Pacific
Reply:
what happened to: passwd userid
root has the power to do this for other users. If it's not working check the permissions. The setuid & setgid bits should be set on the passwd command to allow users to change their own passwords.
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Response Number 2
Name: evilghost Date: September 17, 2001 at 09:06:13 Pacific
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I found that using the 'usermod -p ' command I was able to pass an MD5 encrypted string as the password. I had similar problems using the 'passwd' command and sending input from something other than stdin. Note that the password cannot be plain-text and must be pre-encrypted.
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