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Re: how to FORCE setting a password

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Dougherty)
Wed Nov 18 22:51:57 1998

Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 22:51:10 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Dougherty <sean@sedough.mnsinc.com>
Reply-To: sedough@eng.umd.edu
To: Justin Kuntz <jkuntz@prominic.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <862566C0.004F74EC.00@domino.prominic.com>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Justin Kuntz wrote:

> I have been unable to discover how to do this so far after looking through
> several reference books.  Please e-mail me if you know of a way to force a
> password set through some kind of shell script.

RedHat comes with a program called `autopasswd`.  It's just an expect
script that does the typing for you.

--
Sean Dougherty   
   
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unmarked by that voyage. Then the almost unnameable lust returns. 
                               -Anne Sexton
                                      


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