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Title: command to change password
Post by: John Jones on April 03, 2002, 12:07:47 AM

anyone know the command for the root user to type to change a user's password?
[I know normal practice is to use the web manager panel but I would like to find the e-smith command to change the user's password so that I can automate it in a cron job]

thanks for any help.

Title: Re: command to change password
Post by: stephen noble on April 03, 2002, 07:07:55 AM

look in the function that the web manager uses
/etc/e-smith/web/panels/functions/password or similar

Title: Re: command to change password
Post by: chris meredith on April 03, 2002, 07:10:13 PM

I belive passwd should still work.  As root, just type "passwd ".