or perhaps this might be easier?
*echo username:password | chpasswd*

as mentioned here
http://www.debian-administration.org/article/668/Changing_a_users_password_inside_a_script

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Paul Hoffman <[email protected]>wrote:

> Christian has the right idea here. For example, when changing the
> password for a user, it turned out much easier to do it with sending a
> file and executing it than trying to juggle the inputs. So, for
> Ubuntu, I could use three commands:
>     echo "usertochange:newpassword" > foo
>     sudo /usr/sbin/chpasswd <foo
>     rm foo
>
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