setting password though script

[b1ackmai1er]

Hi,

I want to change my password through a script:

tried this but it didn't work. Can anyone see the mistake I am making?

tc@box:/mnt/sda1$ echo '123asimov$$$' ; echo '123asimov$$$' | sudo passwd tc
123asimov$$$
Changing password for tc
New password:
Retype password:
Passwords don't match
passwd: password for tc is unchanged

Thanks.

[roberts]

You can see an example of how I did it in /etc/init.d/tc-config using chpasswd

 echo "$USER:$PASSWD" | chpasswd

[b1ackmai1er]

HI that works great!


Still would be interested to know how to do this using pipes/redirectiohiln as I wish to use the same techniques for smbpasswd as well.

I saw a script somewhere that showed the password being redirected to the program from a file but cannot find it. It was not as simple as sudo smbpasswd -a user < passfile.txt

regards b1ackmai1er