Changing password via a script

Last update on August 4, 2009 01:32 PM by jak58
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Changing password via a script





Method 1: passwd


Conventionally the command use to change password on Linux based system is passwd
, the option related to this command is –stdin ,an this is all done throughout a pipe. 

echo -e "new_password\nnew_password" | (passwd --stdin $USER)

Method 2: chpasswd


Another alternative is to use the chpasswd, explain as below: 

echo "password:name" | chpasswd


Note that the first method can be use to change psssword on Samba based system: 
echo -e "new_password\nnew_password" | (smbpasswd -a -s $USER)
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