using bare perl to run Unix passwd

[smcracraft]

Hi,

Anyone know of a Perl program that can
run Unix passwd and set a particular password
for a particular user?

I don't want to have to edit the passwd or shadow
files and want to use the built-in-passwd.

The two caveats on this is: no Expect allowed and
also no Perl libraries other than the standard ones.

Also, this is not on Windows but on Unix.

Thanks anybody/everybody.

 

[Pat Deegan]

Greets,

Hi,

Anyone know of a Perl program that can run Unix passwd and set a
particular password for a particular user?

On my system at least, `passwd` has a --stdin option:
"This option is used to indicate that passwd should
read the new password from standard input,
which can be a pipe."

So opening a pipe to '| passwd --stdin username' should work.

HTH,
Pat D

 

[smcracraft]

passwd does not have a --stdin on most vendor Unixes because
it is considered a security flaw.

I should have been more specific to exclude the above "--stdin"
from the requirement.

 

[John W. Krahn]

Anyone know of a Perl program that can
run Unix passwd and set a particular password
for a particular user?

I don't want to have to edit the passwd or shadow
files and want to use the built-in-passwd.

The two caveats on this is: no Expect allowed and
also no Perl libraries other than the standard ones.

Also, this is not on Windows but on Unix.

http://groups.google.com/group/comp...e/39fa3c167101fcae?lnk=st&q=#39fa3c167101fcae


John