Re: Interactive Commands

Szii wrote: > > chpasswd is just something I made up, a command/script/program > that I'd write if I was doing it a whole lot. In RedHat Linux: # rpm -qf /usr/sbin/chpasswd shadow-utils-19990827-10 > TTY is a console connected to the machine. Most Un*x's will use > "ptty" which are psudo-terminals - your machine which isn't physically > connected to the machine but "virtually" connected via rsh, telnet, etc. > > passwd oldpass newpass doesn't work for the simple fact that passwd > doesn't take command line parameters. > > Either create a zsh/csh/bash/tcsh/sh script called "chpasswd" and code > the internals yourself to put them in the correct sequence, or... > > brick$ echo "oldpass\nnewpass\nnewpass | passwd" You can't do this. Passwd awaits passwords exactly from terminal/pseudo-terminal, thus you can't do this. > if you want to specify a user... > > brick$ echo "oldpass\nnewpass\nnewpass | passwd someuser" You can't do this. Like i said before. > But to change someone else's pword you have to have root. You're right. -- pozdrawiam.. ## ## | Sylwester Zarębski - ISP Group | #### ## | e-mail: sylwek@isp.net.pl | ## ## ## | ICQ uin: #45780888 | ## #### ## | Administrator ISP.NET.PL |