Hello,
An extract from man passwd
--stdin
This option is used to indicate that passwd should
read the new password from standard input, which
can be a pipe.
This works for me
echo "desired_password" | passwd --stdin <username>
HTH
VaibhaV
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On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, mukund wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there any single line command to change user password which does not
> generate any prompt. I want to use it in a script. chpasswd doe not work.
>
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