in reply to /usr/bin/passwd

Take a look at Brink, available from freshmeat. It's a Perl CGI script that changes users passwords from a web page, but the guts of the code would probably do what you want.

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RE: Re: /usr/bin/passwd
by Anonymous Monk on Aug 03, 2000 at 01:08 UTC
    yah iv seen it, but I am kinda scared to trust my perl script to deal directly with the password file which contains. 100's of users.
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      Brink actually does all it's work on a copy of the passwd (actually shadow) file, but I guess it's still working on the file.
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