From: Ian Ward Comfort <icomfort@rescomp.stanford.edu>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Change password with usermod
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:42:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C114C6FC-895D-475C-B96E-3E1AD16C20AD@rescomp.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <esu6am$4rg$1@sea.gmane.org>
On Mar 10, 2007, at 3:55 AM, Krzysztof Dubowik wrote:
> However, I usually user chpasswd to change the password from a
> script, so your script becomes:
>
> # echo postgres:secret | chpasswd
A better idea is to:
# chpasswd < passfile
where passfile has been created with the contents:
postgres:secret
That prevents your new password from appearing momentarily in the
process list during this procedure.
—IWC
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-10 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-10 10:42 Change password with usermod Mário Gamito
2007-03-10 10:56 ` Mário Gamito
2007-03-10 11:55 ` Krzysztof Dubowik
2007-03-10 12:05 ` Mário Gamito
2007-03-10 21:42 ` Ian Ward Comfort [this message]
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2007-03-10 9:53 Mário Gamito
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