Changing passwords in Scripts

[Rob Logie]

		RE:  Changing passwords from within a shell/c program

I live in a country where "crypt" is not avaliable (To my knowedge)
and the problem I have is how do you change a users password from a shell
script, where typically the new password (and possiblly the old Password)
would be passed as parameters to the script.  The normal password program
does not seem to be usable as it expects keyboard response.

I require this facility so that I can co-ordinate passwords over multiple
hosts on our network for users and also to co-ordinate passwords with Lan-Manager servers.



Thanks in advance



Rob Logie
EMAIL: logier at cheops.qld.tne.oz.au