On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Paul Black wrote:
> The second problem is that chpasswd takes its input on STDIN. Is the code
> below (currently commented out) correct to do this?
Here's the code snippet from my perl script that adds users...
#
### generate and set password for new user. Uses 'chpasswd' from the
### shadow-utils package, see 'man 8 chpasswd' for operation.
#
$pwd = GenPassword(); #generate their password
open(SETPASS,"|/usr/sbin/chpasswd"); #open a pipe to chpasswd
print SETPASS "$usrn:$pwd\n"; #feed it username & password
close(SETPASS); #shut it down
Hope this helps!
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