On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Tarik Jeait wrote:

>       can somebody tell me how to change my unix passwd by a perl script
> :
>
> open(FILE,"|passwd"); --> doesn't work ;
>
> must I open some pipe or What ?

You'll want to use the Expect module, which can be used to automate
interactive tasks like this.  Excpect.pm can be found on CPAN.  This will
get you started:

http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=Expect

-- Brett
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