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If the user isn't present on the server, ssh won't login in the first place and no reset will happen. So if the statement executes at all, then they must exist.

The ' around && aren't optional. They're what make the echo happen on the remote end instead of the local one -- your shell sees the quotes and considers it a string, strips them off, and adds it to ssh's arguments. The remote end sees a raw && and considers it part of its own shell statement, and follows the logic as appropriate.

Code:

echo "$userpassword" | ssh -t -t $i sudo /usr/bin/passwd --stdin $UserID '&&' echo "'$UserID reset'"

Any one else have any thoughts? Any help would be most
appreciative

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Sorry Corona688, didn't see your last post. Thank you for the imput. I'll try the new command you purposed.

It gave me this as a result:

tcgetattr: Invalid argument
Changing password for user userid.
passwd: Authentication information cannot be recovered


Why did it give the error "tcgetattr: Invalid argument" ?

Did you get the same thing or something different?