Re: Change password with usermod

Hi,

Mário Gamito wrote:
> PASS=`mkpasswd secret`
> ID=`cat /etc/passwd | grep postgres | cut -f3 -d':'`
> usermod -p $PASS -u $ID
> 
> This gives me:
> "usermod: user 502 does not exist"

usermod needs a login name rather than the userid and you don't need -u
option:

# usermod -p $PASS postgres

However, I usually user chpasswd to change the password from a script, so
your script becomes:

# echo postgres:secret | chpasswd

Hope this helps,
Krzysztof

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