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  From: justin@tardis.mx.com.au
  To  : Daniel Callan <dcallan@dataline.net.au>
  Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 21:15:02 +1030 (CST)

Re: /etc/passwd, forgot something

On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, Daniel Callan wrote:

> Sorry,
> 
> Forgot to mention in last post that "usermod -P[encrypted pw]" will also
> do a commandline passwd change. But as I mentioned before, the -P on 
> "useradd" and "usermod" are not supported by EARLY versions of the shadow
> passwd suite (it would need to be from a package off an early dist CD I guess,
> because I have never encountered the problem with downloaded versions of the
> package).

chpasswd is useful - changes passwords non interactively - not on all
systems though.

Boy I hope you don't ever accidently double click on the add user web
form!!

	- Justin

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