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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(3SASL)			      Simple Authentication Security Layer Library Functions			       sasl_setpass(3SASL)

NAME
sasl_setpass - set the password for a user SYNOPSIS
cc [ flag ... ] file ... -lsasl [ library ... ] #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
Use the sasl_setpass() interface to set passwords. sasl_setpass() uses the SASL_CB_SERVER_USERDB_SETPASS callback, if one is supplied. Additionally, if any server mechanism plugins supply a setpass callback, the setpass callback would be called. None of the server mecha- nism plugins currently supply a setpass callback. PARAMETERS
conn The SASL connection context user The username for which the password is set pass The password to set passlen The length of pass oldpass The old password, which is optional oldpasslen The length of oldpass, which is optional flags Refers to flags, including, SASL_SET_CREATE and SASL_SET_DISABLE. Use these flags to create and disable accounts. RETURN VALUES
sasl_setpass() returns an integer that corresponds to a SASL error code. ERRORS
SASL_OK The call to sasl_setpass() was successful. See sasl_errors(3SASL) for information on SASL error codes. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWlibsasl | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Evolving | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |MT-Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
sasl_errors(3SASL), sasl_getprop(3SASL), attributes(5) SunOS 5.10 15 Oct 2003 sasl_setpass(3SASL)
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