Help with passwd!!!

[brendan11]

Folks,
I am trying to put the unix account password set procedure in a script to automate it. When you use "passwd login" it prompts you to enter the password. How can I automate this is a small program so that it takes the password as a parameter passed in rather than prompting at the screen??

 

[bjverzal]

With the standard UNIX passwd program you can't. You can however write your own version of the passwd program to do so.

Bill.

 

[btriggs127]

You can also try "expect". It is a freeware app that can do some of that including bulk changing of root passwords in a network on different machines. But it still needs it to be inputed not passwd.