Changing Passwords From A Batch File

John F. Haugh II jfh at rpp386.cactus.org
Wed Nov 14 16:15:13 AEST 1990


In article <1990Nov12.035942.14096 at sjuphil.uucp> brunette at sjuphil.uucp (Glenn M. Brunette) writes:
>Ideally we would want something like this:
>
>   #changepw "oldpasswd" "newpasswd"
>
>that would go through all of the desired accounts and change the passwords
>to those directed.

Ideally you would want to read the user name, old password and
new password from a data file.  The reason is that ps would
be able to see the passwords as they were changed.
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