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Old 01-05-2009
solaix14 solaix14 is offline
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provide a user password from a script
Hi all,
passwd <username> < /var/adm/passwd.txt

cat /var/adm/passwd.txt
abcd1234
abcd1234

when I run this from the script, it comes with:
New password:

It is not able to pick from the location /var/adm/passwd.txt.
thanks in advance.