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Old 09-29-2006
mdhmi mdhmi is offline
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Originally Posted by thestevew
To do what you want you would need to embed your password in a script in plain text - not good for security!
You could embed only the encrypted portion of the password and use sed to update /etc/shadow.

nathan - the "--stdin" option is not universial.