HOWTO change passwords without a prompt under Linux
Purpose: This is a command that I've overlooked for many years. I always
wanted to know how to change a password without having to confirm, reconfirm
and possibly have to deal with the minimum requirements prompt as well.
The following must be run as root:
# echo "user:password" | /usr/sbin/chpasswd
chpasswd normally looks for a file in the format of user:password, however
for simply changing a single users' password, echoing it and piping it
to chpasswd will work perfectly. You must be root to use this even if
you are changing your own password and root may change the root password
also. This program is good for changing of many users passwords across
multiple systems or possibly using suEXEC to allow changing of passwords
through a web interface.
comments? chpasswd@cdevco.net
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