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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Changing text with sed? Post 13166 by Cameron on Saturday 12th of January 2002 08:12:29 PM
Old 01-12-2002
Try ...
sed "s/oldpass/newpass/g" userfile > userfile.new
mv userfile userfile.old
mv userfile.new userfile
 

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sasl_setpass(3) 						  SASL man pages						   sasl_setpass(3)

NAME
sasl_setpass - Check a plaintext password SYNOPSIS
#include <sasl/sasl.h> int sasl_setpass(sasl_conn_t *conn, const char *user, const char *pass, unsigned passlen, const char *oldpass, unsigned oldpasslen, unsigned flags) DESCRIPTION
sasl_setpass will set passwords in the sasldb, and trigger the setpass callbacks for all available mechanisms. user is the username to set the password for. pass and passlen are the password to set and its length oldpass and oldpasslen are the old password & its length (and are optional) flags Are flags including SASL_SET_CREATE and SASL_SET_DISABLE (to cause the creating of nonexistent accounts and the disabling of an account, respectively) NOTES
oldpass and oldpasslen are unused in the Cyrus SASL implementation, though are passed on to any mechanisms that may require them. RETURN VALUE
Returns SASL_OK on success. SASL error code on failure. CONFORMING TO
RFC 4422 SEE ALSO
sasl(3), sasl_errors(3), sasl_checkpass(3) SASL
10 July 2001 sasl_setpass(3)
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