> 0x00000: 2f 62 69 6e  2f 70 61 73  73 77 64 0d  0a           /bin/pa
+sswd..

< 0x00000: 2f                                                  /

< 0x00000: 62 69 6e 2f  70 61 73 73  77 64 0d 0a  70 61 73 73  bin/pas
+swd..pass
< 0x00010: 77 64 3a 20  20 43 68 61  6e 67 69 6e  67 20 70 61  wd:  Ch
+anging pa
< 0x00020: 73 73 77 6f  72 64 20 66  6f 72 20 70  72 69 65 68  ssword 
+for prieh
< 0x00030: 65 63 6b 0d  0a                                     eck..

< 0x00000: 45 6e 74 65  72 20 6c 6f  67 69 6e 28  4e 49 53 2b  Enter l
+ogin(NIS+
< 0x00010: 29 20 70 61  73 73 77 6f  72 64 3a 20               ) passw
+ord:
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but that is beside the point, the program hangs wainting for the password which i thought i told it to send...
jcpunk

by the way thanks for all the help that was, is, and will be

I may be missing something here but aren't you waiting for

/new password:
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and from what I can see from debug() you are getting

 Enter l+ogin(NIS+ ) password
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I don't think the condition

$telnet->waitfor('/new password: ?$/i') or report_error("ERROR", "No p
+assword prompt found, contact Information Technologies: ");
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Is being met...waitfor() is just sitting there waiting for that prompt to match and it isn't so you never get to

$telnet->print($new_password);
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Of course, I haven't tried it on a real machine but this looks to me to be the possible cause of your quandry.

Thank you very much for that observation, I dont think I would have found that.
jcpunk

by the way thanks for all the help that was, is, and will be