Very Computer

Seems like a problem with passwd reading from stdin (doesn't like echo
asdf^Jasdf | passwd either).  I'd expect it to be a bit smarter and give a
reasonable error message when stdin isn't a tty.

My RH6.1 system has a chpasswd util which you might try using.  If you're
pickier about security, you could even call crypt yourself (seeding it with
your own random salt) and use chpasswd -e.

                        The Amigo

hello all,

I am developing a webmail system on linux. I need to add a user into the
system by cgi(written in GNU C), of course, I executed useradd program
and passwd, the problem occurred when I tried to send the password to
passwd using a pipe.  my program goes like this

  pipe_out = popen ("passwd username", "w");
  fprintf (pipe_out, "password\npassword\n");
  pclose(pipe_out);

but passwd said "conversation error". anoy way it doesn't work.  So
anyone know how to handle this kind of problem? or in an alternative
way to work the task out.

thanks
nick

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Ive had the same problem and it seems that passwd cant handle input
from a pipe. I use the chpasswd program now which can set passwords
correctly.

echo user:password | chpasswd

Tom