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Join Date: Apr 2008

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vishwajit

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Apr 12th, 2008

Hi
Can anyone help on how to add passwords to already created users non-interactively in shell script.
Passwords will be stored in one text file. Script should automatically take passwords from file.

Thanks in Advance
Vishwajit

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eggi

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Apr 12th, 2008

Hey There,

You can do it if your implementation of passwd accepts input from STDIN. Just run through a while loop, like

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while read input
do
    passwd code here
done <input
while read input
do
    passwd code here
done <input

Hope that helps

, Mike

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