Changing passwords in Scripts

[Paul Davey]

>>>>> On 19 Feb 91 20:15:34 GMT, jik at athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) said:

Jonathan> In article <39 at cheops.UUCP>, logier at cheops.UUCP (Rob Logie) writes:
Jonathan> |> 		RE:  Changing passwords from within a shell/c program

Jonathan>   Get Dan Bernstein's "pty" package (available from the comp.sources.unix
Jonathan> archive in volume 23).  Then, you can run "pty passwd" instead of just
Jonathan> "passwd" and pipe the username and password into it.

Jonathan>   I suspect you can also do this with Don Libes' "expect" program (available
Jonathan> in /pub/expect.shar.Z on uunet.uu.net, and in other locations as well).

Alternatively assuming you have networking you could use rsh (or
remsh on SYSV) to handle the ptys for you.

	rsh `hostname` passwd < scriptfile

where scriptfile contains two lines 
eg
foobar
foobar

Not particluarly secure, but quick and fairly widely applicable.


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