Changing OS user password

Ananda has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks! Greetings!!!

I am pressed for time and am therefore posting this query.

What are the approaches that can be adopted to change solaris system user password from within a perl program.

I am not sure if acheiving the goal using system commands thru perl would be best. Are there any packages/code designed for this purpose.

Please suggest.

TIA.

Ananda

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Re: Changing OS user password by Tanalis (Curate) on Sep 02, 2005 at 09:51 UTC
Passwd::Solaris seems to do what you want, though it needs to run as root, which probably isn't ideal. You could probably achieve what you need to using Expect to call `passwd` directly, too. There's probably a bunch of other ways to do it too, but they're the first couple that come to mind. Hope that helps. -- Tanalis `#include www.liquidfusion.org.uk`	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Changing OS user password by Roger (Parson) on Sep 02, 2005 at 10:30 UTC
Yes there is, check out webmin that is designed to make Solaris (in fact any Unix like system) admin easy. No coding necessary, for you of course. :-)	[reply]
Re: Changing OS user password by sh1tn (Priest) on Sep 02, 2005 at 09:51 UTC
The stats show that Linux::usermod passes Solaris tests but I am not sure how suitable this module can be because I wrote it especially for Linux.	[reply]