you could look at the source code to the passwd utility or the apache htpasswd program. Don't you love open source :) or use an "expect" script and use the standard passwd utility. try "man expect" On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Keller, Tim wrote:

Well I came up with a kludgy solution...

... { perl snippet ...

open($passwd,"| passwd --stdin useraccount") or die ("Unable to execute passwd...\n"); print $passwd $new_password_variable; close $passwd;

... } perl snippet ...

-----Original Message----- From: Keller, Tim [mailto:Tim.Keller@stratus.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 9:41 AM To: 'wlug@wlug.org' Subject: [Wlug] Automatically setting passwords...

Does anybody know of or created a script that can change a users password without human intervention?

or on a side note, does anybody know how to in perl hash a textual password into a MD5 hash that would be suitable to be inserted into a shadow file.

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