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Change password

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shieh

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Sep 17, 2002
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Has anyone got a C program that changes unix
user password in noninteractive mode.

Thanks in advance.
 
There's a OSF version available for AIX 4.3.3 on the Bull site
I don't know whether it will work on other flavours. It certainly doesn't on AIX 5L

Columb Healy
Living with a seeker after the truth is infinitely preferable to living with one who thinks they've found it.
 
How would you like the program to get the raw
password data? Read from a file with encrypted contents
or read from some other data source: pipe, fifo, socket,
shared memory?

The simplest way is to use Expect:
 
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