Change user password via bash script

RockLobster · 2 Jun 2009 at 17:53

Hi All

I'm trying to change a user's password via a bash script I found this solution on another forum but it doesn't work does anyone have any other solutions?

The error I get with the following is unrecognized option '--stdin'

passwd can use the --stdin flag
passwd --stdin <user> <password>
note: only root can do this, but for any user

Dj_Jestar · 2 Jun 2009 at 18:10

What will your script achieve that passwd doesn't already, if I may ask?

RockLobster · 2 Jun 2009 at 18:24

Hi

Basically I'm writing a script to create a user, set their password, jail the user, setup a mysql db, etc. I didn't want to have to type in their password as I'm going to code a simple PHP script to do it all. Anyway I managed to find a solution.

echo username : password | chpasswd

BigglesPiP · 2 Jun 2009 at 19:16

Code:

echo username\rpassword\rpassword | sudo passwd

or something like that.

Edit: beaten.