03-31-2005
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Originally Posted by Perderabo
If it's useradd.sam, a -p option becomes available. However the argument must be the encrypted password. It's hard to encrypt a password in a ksh script. But this might be an ioption if you have the encrypted string.
LisaS ... set your password to something generic and use the encrypted string in your script ... then reset your password so your password is different from the one the script uses ...
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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)