Glen Barber <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Jos Chrispijn<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Can someone tell me how I can reset a user's password best in a cron job?
>> If I do a password change from the prompt, I now have to re-enter the
>> password, which I would not like to do in a cron job. Thanks/
>>
>
> Hi, Jos
>
> You can use chpass(1) in root's crontab:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=chpass&sektion=1
And note the '-p' option in particular.
--
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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