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Changing password via a script

Published by jak58, last update on Wednesday October 29, 2008 06:44:43 AM by jak58

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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