Doesn't the passwd command require user input? I see nothing in your code that would be passing along the old password, new password to the passwd program. In fact, I see nowhere that a new password is even captured or stored. My suspicion is that you probably would be better off using expect for what you want to accomplish.

The purpose of the program was to demonstrate that passwd doesn't even prompt you via stderr for a password. Either old or new. I'm considering using expect rather than doing it this way however if passwd doesn't provide any prompts I suspect expect will have similar difficulties.

FYI... the full program I've built does provide a couple of routines asking for old/new password. Once I have it working properly I hope to make it available so people would know how to do this in Perl.

In reply to Re^2: Net::SSH::Perl and Passwd by u235sentinel
in thread Net::SSH::Perl and Passwd by u235sentinel

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