Re: Change password with usermod

Ian Ward Comfort <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-admin
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mar 10, 2007, at 3:55 AM, Krzysztof Dubowik wrote:
> However, I usually user chpasswd to change the password from a  
> script, so your script becomes:
>
> # echo postgres:secret | chpasswd

A better idea is to:

# chpasswd < passfile

where passfile has been created with the contents:

postgres:secret

That prevents your new password from appearing momentarily in the  
process list during this procedure.

—IWC

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