a) The EXPECT language (part of the Tcl/Tk languages) was created to
***mimic*** a user's responses to an interactive program (like ftp, passwd,
etc).
b) Suresh's perl hack is really long for such a simple task! I've seen a lot
of perl hackers doing the same thing. Python has a simpler way to do it.
c) Try the following expect script (modify it after learning the flow)
#!usr/bin/Expect
set username [lindex $argv0]
set password putyourgenericpasswordhere
spawn passwd $username
expect "Enter new password: "
send "$password\r"
expect "Retype new password: "
send "$password\r"
d) The above script will reduce the effort of typing the password everytime,
twice for each user. You will need to run it from the bash prompt
[#scriptfilename username] for each user. With a little effort the above
program can be put into a loop so that the list of users can be done at one
go. Neat, huh!
RKA
Original Message From Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
>Sandeep Singh Cheema rearranged electrons thusly:
>
>> i want to set predetermined passwords for some 150 users on my server. how
>> can i automate the task? i heard expect can make interective scripts, but
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