If you are absolutely alone on that system - here's a very very bad, ugly, naughty hack someone (I won't reveal who) uses in administration shell scripts(!) to set passwords for databases etc.: he just moves away /dev/tty, writes the password into /dev/tty (textfile!) twice and invokes 'passwd someuser'. Hell breaks loose if somebody in the meantime opens a pager. This is really a bad daily wtf. I never did such a thing, honest!

So if you just want the output - save your /dev/tty ... well, I trust you're reasonable! ... don't forget to restore /dev/tty

Shame on me for writing this *blush*

--shmem

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