Re: Resetting user password in cron

2009-07-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert 
Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com writes:

 On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Jos Chrispijnj...@webrz.net 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=chpasssektion=1

And note the '-p' option in particular.

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Resetting user password in cron

2009-07-16 Thread Jos Chrispijn 

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/


Jos Chrispijn


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Re: Resetting user password in cron

2009-07-16 Thread Glen Barber 
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Jos Chrispijnj...@webrz.net 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=chpasssektion=1

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Re: Resetting user password in cron

2009-07-16 Thread Josef Grosch 
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 02:39:51AM +0200, Jos Chrispijn 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/
 
 Jos Chrispijn


man pw
man chpass


Josef

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Re: Resetting user password in cron

2009-07-16 Thread Mel Flynn 
On Thursday 16 July 2009 16:39:51 Jos Chrispijn 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/

Take a look at pw(8), specifically usermod command, -h and -H option.
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Re: Resetting user password in cron

2009-07-16 Thread Tim Judd 
On 7/16/09, Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net 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/

 Jos Chrispijn


yes newpasswd | passwd username

:)

not tried it myself.
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