[ale] scripting passwd change

[Ben Phillips]

On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Joe Knapka wrote:

> #!/usr/bin/expect
> spawn passwd
> expect "ssword:"
> send [lindex $argv 0]
> expect "ssword:"
> send [lindex $argv 1]
> expect "ssword:"
> send [lindex $argv 1]
> expect eof

I can't get this to work for some reason.  All I get is:

$ ./cpasswd.tcl
spawn passwd
Changing password for pynk
(current) UNIX password: 

...and then it sits there and looks at me until it finally times out.  
Personally, I'm betting this is PAM weirdness.  Maybe I should grab a
non-PAM-aware passwd executable out of a Slack distrib or something?


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