At 13:36 22/06/00, Niall O Broin wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 12:19:43PM +0100, Fergal Daly wrote:
>> > >You could use this as is in conjunction with your scripts and modify
> > >/etc/passwd (or /etc/shadow) as appropriate. Alternatively, you could read
> > >the man pages for useradd and then use this program to generate the
> > >arguments to the -p switch of useradd.
> >
> > or use chpasswd to modify a whole load of passwords in batch (takes plain
> > or encrypted),
>>Why is it that whenever I have a little Perl solution to a problem, there's
>always a ready made solution that I don't know of (and I did look) :-) What
>was that little program to generate lists of numbers ? (seq - I just looked,
>and of course I'll never remember it again)
>>Boo hoo !
Don't feel too bad. I spent days fiddling with perl's expect module and
it's funny behaviour when run from cgi before I stumbled across chpasswd,
Fergal
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