04-14-2009
printing password having special characters
Hi
I have a password stored in a file (which is a user input)
The password is having the special character $
say the password is pw$ord and is stored in the file pw_note
I am using the following statement to store the passowrd in a
variable
$schema_pwd = `cat $dir/pwd_note` ;
Now if i print the $schema_pwd
it only shows pw
It seems that it is considering $ord as variable and not printing it
Even if the user inputs pw\$ord while prompting for the password the password is stored as pw$ord and while reading with the above startement it is read as pw
can somebody please help me so that it reads as pw$ord instead of pw
Thanks in advance
Suresh
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
lpasswd
lpasswd(8) System Manager's Manual lpasswd(8)
NAME
lpasswd - Change group or user password
SYNOPSIS
lpasswd [OPTION]... [name]
DESCRIPTION
Changes password of user or group name.
If the name argument is not provided, username of the invoking user is used; the name argument is ignored if lpasswd is run set-uid to a
different user.
Entering an empty password (by pressing Enter) aborts the password setting operation.
OPTIONS
-F, --plainpassword-fd=fd
Read password from file descriptor fd, terminated by end of file, '
' or '
'.
-f, --password-fd=fd
Read password hash from file descriptor fd, terminated by end of file, '
' or '
'.
-g, --group
Change password of group name. By default the password of user name is changed.
-i, --interactive
Ask all questions when connecting to the user database, even if default answers are set up in libuser configuration.
-P, --plainpassword=password
Set the password to password. Note that the password can be viewed while running lpasswd using tools such as ps(1).
-p, --password=encrypted
Set the password to the password represented by the hash encrypted. Note that the hash can be viewed while running lpasswd using
tools such as ps(1).
EXIT STATUS
The exit status is 0 on success, nonzero on error.
libuser Jan 12 2005 lpasswd(8)