RE: [LIP] passwd wrapper

"Godbole, Amarendra \(GE Consumer & Industrial\)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.india.programmers
Message-ID <905989466451C34E87066C5C13DDF034033D6964@HYDMLVEM01.e2k.ad.ge.com> 
> Why cant you simply ask the user for his password, and set it in the 
> system using "passwd --stdin username" (using sudo 
> permissions given to 
> your script or somethign similar)?

I have to support this on Linux as well as AIX. --stdin is only available
with Linux. :(

Cheers,
Amar


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